dc.contributor.author | Grosskopf, Brit | |
dc.contributor.author | Sarin, Rajiv | |
dc.contributor.author | Watson, Elizabeth | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-04-21T10:55:50Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015-03-17 | |
dc.description.abstract | We experimentally investigate the disposition of decision makers to use case-based reasoning as suggested by Hume (An enquiry concerning human understanding, 1748) and formalized by case-based decision theory (Gilboa and Schmeidler in Q J Econ 110:605–639, 1995). Our subjects face a monopoly decision problem about which they have very limited information. Information is presented in a manner which makes similarity judgements according to the feature matching model of Tversky (Psychol Rev 84:327–352, 1977) plausible. We provide subjects a “history” of cases. In the (Formula presented.) between-subject design, we vary whether information about the current market is given and whether immediate feedback about obtained profits is provided. The results provide support for the predictions of case-based decision theory, particularly when no immediate feedback is provided. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Department of Economics, Texas A&M University | |
dc.description.sponsorship | Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, Texas A&M University | |
dc.description.sponsorship | NSF | |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 79 (4) pp. 639-666 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s11238-015-9492-1 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/16925 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Springer | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | http://link.springer.com/journal/11238 | en_GB |
dc.rights.embargoreason | Publisher's embargo | en_GB |
dc.subject | Case-based decision making | en_GB |
dc.subject | Case-based reasoning | en_GB |
dc.subject | Heuristics | en_GB |
dc.subject | Limited information environments | en_GB |
dc.subject | Similarity | en_GB |
dc.title | An experiment on case-based decision making | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.identifier.issn | 0040-5833 | |
dc.description | “The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11238-015-9492-1”." | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Theory and Decision | en_GB |