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Working Papers

2009

1. How Does Simplified Disclosure Affect Individuals' Mutual Fund Choices?
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

2008

2. How are Preferences Revealed?
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
   Also in Levine's Bibliography, UCLA Department of Economics (2007)
   See also Journal Article in Journal of Public Economics (2008)
3. Individual Laboratory-Measured Discount Rates Predict Field Behavior
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
   See also Journal Article in Journal of Risk and Uncertainty (2008)
4. Learning in the Credit Card Market
   Levine's Bibliography, UCLA Department of Economics View citations
   Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2008) View citations
5. Measuring intertemporal preferences using response times
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
6. Optimal Mortgage Refinancing: A Closed Form Solution
   Levine's Bibliography, UCLA Department of Economics View citations
   Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2007) View citations
7. Why Does the Law of One Price Fail? An Experiment on Index Mutual Funds
   Levine's Bibliography, UCLA Department of Economics
   Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2006) View citations

2007

8. Estimating Discount Functions with Consumption Choices over the Lifecycle
   Documentos de Trabajo, Centro de Economía Aplicada, Universidad de Chile View citations
   Also in Economics Series Working Papers, University of Oxford, Department of Economics (2007) View citations
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2007) View citations
   Levine's Bibliography, UCLA Department of Economics (2005) View citations
9. Mental Accounting in Portfolio Choice: Evidence from a Flypaper Effect
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
10. Reinforcement Learning in Investment Behavior
    Levine's Bibliography, UCLA Department of Economics
11. Safety in Markets: An Impossibility Theorem for Dutch Books
    Levine's Bibliography, UCLA Department of Economics
    Also in 2004 Meeting Papers, Society for Economic Dynamics (2004) View citations
12. The Age of Reason: Financial Decisions Over the Lifecycle
    Levine's Bibliography, UCLA Department of Economics View citations
    Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2007) View citations
    Working Paper Series, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (2007) View citations
13. The Impact of Employer Matching on Savings Plan Participation under Automatic Enrollment
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations

2006

14. Early Decisions: A Regulatory Framework
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
15. Instantaneous Gratification
    Levine's Bibliography, UCLA Department of Economics View citations
    Also in NajEcon Working Paper Reviews, www.najecon.org (2001) View citations
16. Reducing the Complexity Costs of 401(k) Participation Through Quick Enrollment(TM)
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    Also in Levine's Bibliography, UCLA Department of Economics (2005) View citations
17. Simplification and Saving
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
18. The Importance of Default Options for Retirement Savings Outcomes: Evidence from the United States
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    Also in CeRP Working Papers, Center for Research on Pensions and Welfare Policies, Turin (Italy) (2005) View citations
    See also Chapter (2006)

2005

19. $100 Bills on the Sidewalk: Suboptimal Investment in 401(k) Plans
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
20. $100 Bills on the Sidewalk: Suboptimal Saving in 401(k) Plans
    Levine's Bibliography, UCLA Department of Economics View citations
21. Extreme Value Theory and the Effects of Competition on Profits
    Levine's Bibliography, UCLA Department of Economics View citations
22. Information Acquisition: Experimental Analysis of a Boundedly Rational Model
    Levine's Bibliography, UCLA Department of Economics View citations
23. Optimal Defaults and Active Decisions
    Levine's Bibliography, UCLA Department of Economics View citations
    Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2005) View citations
24. Shrouded Attributes, Consumer Myopia, and Information Suppression in Competitive Markets
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    See also Journal Article in The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2006)

2004

25. Competition and Consumer Confusion
    Econometric Society 2004 North American Summer Meetings, Econometric Society View citations
26. Consumption-Wealth Comovement of the Wrong Sign
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
27. Employees' Investment Decisions about Company Stock
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
28. Plan Design and 401(k) Savings Outcomes
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
29. Saving or Retirement on the Path of Least Resistance
    Levine's Bibliography, UCLA Department of Economics View citations
30. Shrouded Attributes and the Curse of Educatoin
    2004 Meeting Papers, Society for Economic Dynamics

2003

31. Passive Decisions and Potent Defaults
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    See also Chapter (2005)
32. Wealth Accumulation, Credit Card Borrowing, and Consuption-Income Comovement
    Documentos de Trabajo, Centro de Economía Aplicada, Universidad de Chile View citations

2002

33. Defined Contribution Pensions: Plan Rules, Participant Decisions, and the Path of Least Resistance
    JCPR Working Papers, Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research View citations
    Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2001) View citations
34. For Better or For Worse: Default Effects and 401(k) Savings Behavior
    JCPR Working Papers, Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research View citations
    Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2001) View citations
    See also Chapter (2004)
35. The 6D Bias and the Equity Premium Puzzle
    Harvard Institute of Economic Research Working Papers, Harvard - Institute of Economic Research View citations
    See also Chapter (2002)

2001

36. The Economic Approach to Social Capital
    Harvard Institute of Economic Research Working Papers, Harvard - Institute of Economic Research View citations
    Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2000) View citations

2000

37. A Debt Puzzle
    Documentos de Trabajo, Centro de Economía Aplicada, Universidad de Chile View citations
    Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2000) View citations
38. Does the Internet Increase Trading? Evidence from Investor Behavior in 401(k) Plans
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    Also in Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research Working Papers, Wharton School Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research View citations
39. Hyperbolic Discounting, Wealth Accumulation, and Consumption
    Documentos de Trabajo, Centro de Economía Aplicada, Universidad de Chile View citations

1999

40. Dynamic Choices of Hyperbolic Consumers
    Harvard Institute of Economic Research Working Papers, Harvard - Institute of Economic Research View citations
    See also Journal Article in Econometrica (2001)
41. What is Social Capital? The Determinants of Trust and Trustworthiness
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    Also in Harvard Institute of Economic Research Working Papers, Harvard - Institute of Economic Research (1999) View citations

1998

42. The implications of hyperbolic discounting for project evaluation
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations

1996

43. Hyperbolic Discount Functions, Undersaving, and Savings Policy
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations

Journal Articles

2009

1. The Allocation of Time in Decision-Making
   Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7, (2-3), 628-637

2008

2. How are preferences revealed?
   Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92, (8-9), 1787-1794 View citations
   See also Working Paper (2008)
3. Individual laboratory-measured discount rates predict field behavior
   Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2008, 37, (2), 237-269 View citations
   See also Working Paper (2008)

2006

4. Costly Information Acquisition: Experimental Analysis of a Boundedly Rational Model
   American Economic Review, 2006, 96, (4), 1043-1068 View citations
5. Shrouded Attributes, Consumer Myopia, and Information Suppression in Competitive Markets
   The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2006, 121, (2), 505-540 View citations
   See also Working Paper (2005)

2005

6. Are Empowerment and Education Enough? Underdiversification in 401(k) Plans
   Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2005, 36, (2005-2), 151-214 View citations

2003

7. Good policies for bad governments: behavioral political economy
   Conference Series ; [Proceedings], 2003, (Jun) View citations
8. Optimal Defaults
   American Economic Review, 2003, 93, (2), 180-185 View citations

2002

9. An Economic Approach to Social Capital
   Economic Journal, 2002, 112, (483), 437-458 View citations
10. How does the Internet affect trading? Evidence from investor behavior in 401(k) plans
    Journal of Financial Economics, 2002, 64, (3), 397-421 View citations

2001

11. A Cue-Theory Of Consumption
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2001, 116, (1), 81-119 View citations
12. Dynamic Choices of Hyperbolic Consumers
    Econometrica, 2001, 69, (4), 935-57 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1999)

2000

13. A Boundedly Rational Decision Algorithm
    American Economic Review, 2000, 90, (2), 433-438 View citations
14. Measuring Trust
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2000, 115, (3), 811-846 View citations

1999

15. Commentary on "Choice Bracketing" by Read, Lowenstein and Rabin
    Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 1999, 19, (1-3), 201-02

1998

16. Amos Tversky and the Ascent of Behavioral Economics
    Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 1998, 16, (1), 7-47 View citations
17. Life-cycle consumption and hyperbolic discount functions
    European Economic Review, 1998, 42, (3-5), 861-871 View citations
18. Self-Control and Saving for Retirement
    Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1998, 29, (1998-1), 91-196 View citations

1997

19. Golden Eggs and Hyperbolic Discounting
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1997, 112, (2), 443-77 View citations

1989

20. Economic Implications of Extraordinary Movements in Stock Prices
    Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1989, 20, (1989-2), 137-190 View citations

Chapters

2006

1. The Importance of Default Options for Retirement Saving Outcomes: Evidence from the United States
   A chapter in Social Security Policy in a Changing Environment, 2006 View citations
   See also Working Paper (2006)

2005

2. Passive Decisions and Potent Defaults
   A chapter in Analyses in the Economics of Aging, 2005, pp 59-78
   See also Working Paper (2003)

2004

3. For Better or for Worse: Default Effects and 401(k) Savings Behavior
   A chapter in Perspectives on the Economics of Aging, 2004, pp 81-126
   See also Working Paper (2002)

2002

4. Defined Contribution Pensions: Plan Rules, Participant Choices, and the Path of Least Resistance
   A chapter in Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 16, 2002, pp 67-114 View citations
5. The 6D Bias and the Equity-Premium Puzzle
   A chapter in NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2001, Volume 16, 2002, pp 257-330 View citations
   See also Working Paper (2002)