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Decision-making environments in which unboundedly rational decision makers choose to ignore relevant information

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This paper advances the claim that ignoring relevant information is sometimes consistent with good decision making. Although that finding is not new, the argument presented here is. In contrast with bounded rationality models, the decision-making model in this paper presupposes no cognitive constraints or costs associated with processing available information. The paper identifies a class of decision-making environments characterised by asymmetric payoffs and probabilities – a property which gives rise to optimal decision rules that ignore relevant information. In other words, optimal decision procedures used by omniscient agents are sometimes independent of variables that objectively predict future outcomes.

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  • Nathan Berg, 2005. "Decision-making environments in which unboundedly rational decision makers choose to ignore relevant information," Global Business and Economics Review, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 7(1), pages 59-73.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:gbusec:v:7:y:2005:i:1:p:59-73
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    Cited by:

    1. Oxoby, Robert J., 2007. "The Effect of Incentive Structure on Heuristic Decision Making: The Proportion Heuristic," IZA Discussion Papers 2857, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    2. repec:clg:wpaper:2007-10 is not listed on IDEAS
    3. Berg, Nathan & Hoffrage, Ulrich, 2010. "Compressed environments: Unbounded optimizers should sometimes ignore information," MPRA Paper 26372, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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