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Behind behavioral economic man: the methods and conflicts between two perspectives
(Centro de Estudos em Finanças (GVcef), 2016-08)
This work analyzes the methods of research in decision-making of behavioral economists Kahneman and Tversky (K&T) and one of their main critics, Gigerenzer and the ABC Group. Our aim was to explain differences between these ...
A model of mental budgeting: consumer theory and inaccurate choice
(Centro de Estudos em Finanças (GVcef), 2016-08)
Commonly, Economic Theory assumes that money is fungible. However, evidence from Behavioral Economics (Thaler (1999), Shapiro and Hastings (2013)) indicates this assumption may fail in many behaviors. One possible explanation ...