Costly information acquisition: Experimental analysis of a boundedly rational model

American Economic Review

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1043-1068

  Gabaix, Xavier ^a,b   Laibson, David ^c   Moloche, Guillermo ^a,d   Weinberg, Stephen ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b National Bureau ot Economic Research   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

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EID: 33847609217     PISSN: 00028282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/aer.96.4.1043     Document Type: Article

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