Conférence Jean-Jacques Laffont the economics of motivated beliefs

Revue d'Economie Politique

Volumn 125, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 665-685

  Bénabou, Roland ^a  

^a NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Anticipatory utility; Beliefs; Cognitive biases; Cognitive dissonance; Financial crisis; Group morale; Groupthink; Hubris; Information aversion; Market exuberance; Memory; Motivated cognition; Non Bayesian updating; Organizational culture; Overconfidence; Psychology; Speculative bubbles; Willful ignorance; Wishful thinking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84959256102     PISSN: 03732630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3917/redp.255.0665     Document Type: Conference Paper

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