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            • Behavioural economics
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            • A branch of ECONOMICS that concentrates on explaining the economic decisions people make in practice, especially when these conflict with what conventional economic theory predicts they will do. Behaviourists try to augment or replace traditional ideas of economic rationality (homo economicus) with decision-making models borrowed from psychology. According to psychologists, people are disproportionately influenced by a fear of feeling regret and will often forgo benefits even to avoid only a small risk of feeling they have failed. They are also prone to cognitive dissonance, often holding on to a belief plainly at odds with new evidence, usually because the belief has been held and cherished for a long time. Then there is anchoring: people are often overly influenced by outside suggestion. People apparently also suffer from status quo bias: they are willing to take bigger gambles to maintain the status quo than they would be to acquire it in the first place. Traditional UTILITY theory assumes that people make individual decisions in the context of the big picture. But psychologists have found that they generally compartmentalise, often on superficial grounds. They then make choices about things in one particular mental compartment without taking account of the implications for things in other compartments. There is lots of evidence that people are persistently and irrationally overconfident. They are also vulnerable to hindsight bias: once something happens they overestimate the extent to which they could have predicted it. Many of these traits are captured in PROSPECT THEORY, which is at the heart of much of behavioural economics. The Economist
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            • Behavioral economics blossomed from the realization that neither point of view was correct. - Library Economics Liberty by
            • Behavioral economics explains why we procrastinate, buy, borrow, and grab chocolate on - Harvard Magazine by
            • Economics orthodoxy may look down on behavioral economics, but it's the most important development in economics in a long time. - The Christian Science Monitor. by
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            • economia comportamentală
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            • Economia comportamentală studiază felul concret în care oamenii fac alegeri în fiecare zi, punând în discuție postulatele economice tradiționale și bazându-se pe experimente de teren și de laborator pentru investigarea motivațiilor concrete ale deciziilor oamenilor. Această disciplină ar putea explica de ce oamenii nu se comportă întotdeauna în mod egoist (de ex. donează bani), de ce nu acționează întotdeauna în modul cel mai logic din punct de vedere economic (de ex. păstrează un furnizor de energie mai scump în loc să îl schimbe cu un concurent mai ieftin) sau de ce atribuie unor obiecte o valoare mai mare decât altora care au aceeași valoare reală. europa.eu - by George C.
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            • Economia comportamentala ia în calcul toate fluctuatiile rationalitatii umane, fie ca este perturbata de emotii, efectul de turma, tehnici de marketing sau pur si simplu incapacitatea lor de a face calcule economice. În ultimii ani, economia comportamentala ofera solutii pentru o varietate de probleme de zi cu zi, de la obezitate si diferite forme de dependenta, incapacitatea de a urma cu rigoare un tratament medical sau chiar încalzirea globala. - agrimanagement.ro by George C.
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            • Economia comportamentale
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            • Che cos'è l'economia comportamentale e in che cosa differisce dall'economia classica? La cosiddetta "economia comportamentale", a cui molto spesso si fa riferimento con termine inglese "Behavioral Economics", si interessa degli stessi argomenti dell'economia classica ma, a differenza di quest'ultima, non presume la razionalità degli individui. Dan Ariely - "Predictably Irrational" - by Oscar Romagnone
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            • L'ECONOMIA COMPORTAMENTALE IN RISPOSTA ALLE ANGOSCE DELLA CRISI 31/05/2009 Questo pomeriggio Tore Ellingsen ha spiegato come i sentimenti possano influenzare i comportanti economici. Per molti anni gli economisti hanno tralasciato il settore dell’economia comportamentale dando praticamente carta bianca al modello predominante che è quello dell’egoista razionale. Siamo tutti egoisti razionali. - Ellingsen/Stockholm School of Economics by Oscar Romagnone
            • Economia comportamentale (2010/2011) Obiettivi formativi Il corso mira a presentare agli studenti i principali risultati ottenuti negli ultimi anni all’interno della cosiddetta ‘economia comportamentale’ (behavioural economics), un ambito di ricerca interdisciplinare finalizzato ad incrementare il potere esplicativo e previsionale della teoria economica avvalendosi di ipotesi comportamentali caratterizzate da un alto grado di realismo, sulla base di un dialogo sempre più stretto e fecondo con altre discipline (dalla psicologia sociale all’antropologia culturale e alle neuroscienze). - Università di Verona by Oscar Romagnone
            • L’economomia comportamentale, meglio definibile come economia cognitiva, si occupa proprio di studiare e definire la “prevedibilità” della componente irrazionale dei comportamenti e delle scelte umane. - Neorema by Oscar Romagnone
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            • Поведенческая экономика
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            • Поведенческая экономика - это отрасль экономической науки, которая изучает и объясняет поведение людей экономическими методами, но с учетом того, что кроме классических рациональных мотивов, это поведение может определяться психологическими факторами. ros-torg.net - by AndriyRubashnyy
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            • Поведенческая экономика и Поведенческие финансы — это тесно взаимосвязанные отрасли науки, которые объединяют отдельные направления экономического и финансового анализа с использованием социальных, когнитивных и эмоциональных факторов, с целью изучения и понимания процессов принятия экономических решений потребителями, заемщиками и инвесторами. Также объектом интереса является влияние этих факторов на формирование рыночной цены, величину возможной наценки на себестоимость товара или услуги, а также восприятия показателя цена/качество. - ru.wikipedia.org by AndriyRubashnyy
            • Поведенческая экономика признает, что в реальной жизни человек может действовать на неэффективных рынках с неполной информацией, принимать участие в финансовых пирамидах, ценить больше то, что он может заработать в краткосрочной перспективе, чем в долгосрочной, уделять недостаточно внимания общественным интересам, подчиняться нерациональным указаниям со стороны правительственных организаций… Все приведенные факты свидетельствуют о необходимости введения теории агента, не полностью способного проанализировать и спрогнозировать ситуацию. - epee.hse.ru by AndriyRubashnyy
            • оведенческая экономика подвергает сомнению эту установку, поскольку вкладывает совершенно иной смысл в понятия теории и рациональности; экономист, работающий в области поведенческой теории, анализирует, как ведут себя люди и, исходя из этих наблюдений, вводит поведенческие предпосылки в свои модели. Поведенческая экономика создана для экономистов, не работающих по схемам. - institutiones.com by AndriyRubashnyy
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            • Bihevioralna ekonomija
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            • Klasična ili neoklasična ekonomska teorija nije mogla objasniti sve moguće instance ponašanja. Bihevioralna ekonomija bavi se upravo načinom na koji emocije i struktura mentalnog sklopa ljudi utiču na donošenje ekonomskih odluka. Bihevioralni modeli doprinose, stoga, većem realizmu i uopštenosti ekonomske teorije Ekonom:east - by itchi
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            • Ideje koje iznosim oslanjaju se na saznanja iz bihevioralne ekonomije (pravac u ekonomiji utemeljen u psihologiji koji se razvio u poslednjih trideset godina). Glavni uvid je ovo: način na koji ćemo potrošiti novac zavisi od načina na koji ga dobijemo i na koji moramo da ga potrošimo. - Vreme by itchi
            • Nadao sam se, nažalost uzalud, da će se profesor bar jednom riječju osvrnuti na očigledne nedostatke trenutno dominantne ekonomske teorije i prakse, i ko zna, možda pomenuti istraživanja u okviru relativno nove discipline, imenom behavioral economics. (Za one koji još uvijek nisu čuli: pomenuta disciplina spaja ekonomiju, psihologiju i neurobiologiju, i jasno pokazuje da se ljudi u ekonomskim transakcijama ne ponašaju kao racionalni automati. - Blogosfera by itchi
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