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Adaptation, Anticipation-Bias and Optimal Income Taxation [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012 Adaptation is omnipresent but people systematically fail to correctly anticipate the degree to which they adapt. This leads individuals to make inefficient intertemporal decisions. This paper concerns optimal income taxation to correct for such anticipation-biases in a framework where consumers adapt to earlier consumption levels through a habit ...
Aronsson, Thomas, Schöb, Ronnie
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Exploring the Nature and Impact of Client-Related Delays on Contemporary Saudi Construction Projects
Buildings, 2022 In rapidly developing countries such as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), where the construction of buildings and supporting infrastructure is critical to achieving strategic developmental milestones, delays to capital projects can derail other sectors ...
Essa Alenazi +2 more
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Synthesizing optimal bias in randomized self-stabilization [PDF]
Distributed Computing, 2021 AbstractRandomization is a key concept in distributed computing to tackle impossibility results. This also holds for self-stabilization in anonymous networks where coin flips are often used to break symmetry. Although the use of randomization in self-stabilizing algorithms is rather common, it is unclear what the optimal coin bias is so as to minimize ...
Volk, Matthias +3 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Behavioral Finance is an evolving field that studies how psychological factors affect decision making under uncertainty. This study seeks to find the influence of certain identified behavioral financial biases on the decision-making process of investors ...
Mingming Zhang +4 more
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International Review of Social Psychology, 2023 People are eager to update their beliefs, such as a perceived risk, if they receive information that is better than expected but are reluctant to do so when the evidence is unfavourable.
Mihai Dricu +3 more
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Seeing through rose-colored glasses: How optimistic expectancies guide visual attention. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Optimism bias and positive attention bias have important highly similar implications for mental health but have only been examined in isolation. Investigating the causal relationships between these biases can improve the understanding of their underlying
Laura Kress, Mirko Bristle, Tatjana Aue
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Unrealistic optimism: east and west?
Frontiers in Psychology, 2013 Following Weinstein’s pioneering work (1980) many studies established that people have an optimistic bias concerning future life events. At first, the bulk of research was conducted using populations in North America and Northern Europe, the optimistic ...
Mary Sissons Joshi, Wakefield eCarter
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Optimistic Third-Party Sellers in E-Commerce Supply Chains
SystemsThis paper investigates the effects of optimism in an e-commerce supply chain where two third-party sellers offer substitutable products through a shared e-commerce platform.
Jialu Li, Giri K. Tayi
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Design and analysis strategies for robust microbiome ageing research
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.The gut microbiome changes with age and associates with age‐related morbidity and mortality, establishing it as a potential biomarker and intervention target for ageing. Realising this potential requires methodological rigour, yet distinguishing biological signals from methodological artefacts remains challenging across cohorts. This review provides an
Mark Olenik +5 more
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Optimism bias or an inconvenient truth?
The Bulletin of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 2022 Our President reflects on our response to COVID-19 and looks forward to the future of surgical training.
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