Attention please!

Speaker
Jakub Steiner
Date
13/05/2019 - 12:30 - 11:10Add To Calendar 2019-05-13 11:10:00 2019-05-13 12:30:00 Attention please! Link to paper joint with Olivier Gossner, and Colin Stewart. We study the impact of manipulating the attention of a decision-maker who learns sequentially about a number of items before making a choice. Under natural assumptions on the decision-maker’s strategy, forcing attention toward one item increases its likelihood of being chosen.  building 504, seminar room 011. אוניברסיטת בר-אילן - Department of Economics Economics.Dept@mail.biu.ac.il Asia/Jerusalem public
Place
building 504, seminar room 011.
Affiliation
CERGE-EI and the University of Zurich
Abstract

Link to paper

joint with Olivier Gossner, and Colin Stewart.

We study the impact of manipulating the attention of a decision-maker who learns sequentially about a number of items before making a choice. Under natural assumptions on the decision-maker’s strategy, forcing attention toward one item increases its likelihood of being chosen. 

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