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Born Under a Lucky Star?

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  • Nobuyuki Hanaki
  • Alan Kirman
  • Matteo Marsili

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This paper suggests that people can learn to behave in a way which makes them unlucky or lucky. Learning from experience will lead them to make choices which may lead to "luckier" outcomes than others. By so doing they may reinforce the choices of those who find themselves with unlucky outcomes. In this situation, people have reasonably learned to behave as they do and their behaviour is consistent with their experience. The lucky ones were not "born under a lucky star" they learned to be lucky.

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  • Nobuyuki Hanaki & Alan Kirman & Matteo Marsili, 2009. "Born Under a Lucky Star?," Tsukuba Economics Working Papers 2009-003, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba.
    • Handle: RePEc:tsu:tewpjp:2009-003
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    6. Aleksandra Alorić & Peter Sollich & Peter McBurney & Tobias Galla, 2016. "Emergence of Cooperative Long-Term Market Loyalty in Double Auction Markets," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 11(4), pages 1-26, April.

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