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Richard H. Thaler
Researcher at University of Chicago
Publications - 205
Citations - 106613
Richard H. Thaler is an academic researcher from University of Chicago. The author has contributed to research in topics: Behavioral economics & Loss aversion. The author has an hindex of 100, co-authored 203 publications receiving 101082 citations. Previous affiliations of Richard H. Thaler include Massachusetts Institute of Technology & University of Rochester.
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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
TL;DR: In Nudge as discussed by the authors, Thaler and Sunstein argue that human beings are susceptible to various biases that can lead us to blunder and make bad decisions involving education, personal finance, health care, mortgages and credit cards, the family, and even the planet itself.
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Does the Stock Market Overreact
TL;DR: In this article, a study of market efficiency investigates whether people tend to "overreact" to unexpected and dramatic news events and whether such behavior affects stock prices, based on CRSP monthly return data, is consistent with the overreaction hypothesis.
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Toward a positive theory of consumer choice
TL;DR: The economic theory of the consumer is a combination of positive and normative theories as discussed by the authors, which describes how consumers should choose, but it is also described how they do choose, and in certain well-defined situations many consumers act in a manner that is inconsistent with economic theory.
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Mental Accounting and Consumer Choice
TL;DR: It’s time to get used to the idea that there is no such thing as a “right answer” to everything.
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Anomalies: The Endowment Effect, Loss Aversion, and Status Quo Bias
TL;DR: A wine-loving economist we know purchased some nice Bordeaux wines years ago at low prices as discussed by the authors, but would neither be willing to sell the wine at the auction price nor buy an additional bottle at that price.