ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2460-619X
(2004):
How Do Behavioral Assumptions Affect Structural Inference? Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment.
In: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Vol. 22, No. 1: pp. 64-79
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Abstract
We use laboratory experiments to investigate the effect that assuming rational expectations has on structural inference in a dynamic discrete decision problem. Our design induces preferences up to the subjective rate of time preference, leaving unrestricted both this parameter and subjects’ decision rules. We estimate subjects’ discount rates under the assumption that all subjects use the rational expectations decision rule, and under weaker behavioral assumptions that allow decision rule heterogeneity. We find that certain sophisticated heuristics fit subjects’ decisions statistically significantly better than rational expectations. However, the rational expectations assumption does not distort inferences about the cross-sectional discount rate distribution.
Item Type: | Journal article |
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Faculties: | Economics Economics > Chairs > Chair of Empirical Economics |
Subjects: | 300 Social sciences > 330 Economics |
Language: | English |
Item ID: | 19372 |
Date Deposited: | 15. Apr 2014 08:50 |
Last Modified: | 04. Nov 2020 13:01 |
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