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ECON0040 Week 9
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- Economics (ECON0040)
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- University College London (UCL)
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Week 9Bounded rationality
Intro
• Agents make decisions that are rational within the limits of available information, mental
capabilities and time constraints
◦ This means that revealed preference may not re ect true preference
◦ They have varying levels of decision making ability (DMA) causing heterogeneity in decision
making quality (DMQ)
• The subset of all options that the consumer considers is called their consideration set
DMA and DMQ- Agarwal and Mazumber (2013)
Method
Looking at two examples of suboptimal nancial decisions:
• Balance transfer mistake
◦ When an individual transfers balance to a new card, outstanding debt has a lower ‘teaser’
rate during the grace period, where as new debt has a higher rate than on old card
◦ This means the optimal decision after transferring entire balance to new card is to only make
new purchases on old card
◦ Violations of this are a BT mistake, and changing to the optimal strategy is a eureka moment
• Rate-change mistake
◦ Individuals who apply for a home equity loan must estimate the value of their home and are
penalised with higher APR if it di ers from the bank’s estimate
◦ They then accept this rate rather than reapplying elsewhere
• Data from the US military qualifying test containing measure of cognitive skills, and data on which
of them committed these suboptimal nancial decisions
Results
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Poverty impedes cognitive function- Mani et al (2012)
Laboratory studies
Shoppers at a mall were paid to participate, so sample included a large range of incomes
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