Don't aim too high: the potential costs of high aspirations
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- Matthey, Astrid & Dwenger, Nadja, 2008. "Don't aim too high: The potential costs of high aspirations," SFB 649 Discussion Papers 2008-011, Humboldt University Berlin, Collaborative Research Center 649: Economic Risk.
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Keywords
aspirations; reference state; expectations; individual utility; experiments;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D11 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Theory
- D84 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Expectations; Speculations
- C91 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EXP-2007-12-08 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-UPT-2007-12-08 (Utility Models and Prospect Theory)
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