Attention Please!

Olivier Gossner, Jakub Steiner and Colin Stewart

Working Papers from University of Toronto, Department of Economics

Abstract: We study the impact of manipulating the attention of a decision-maker who learns sequentially about a number of items before making a choice. Under natural assumptions on the decision-maker's strategy, forcing attention toward one item increases its likelihood of being chosen.

Keywords: Sequential sampling; marketing; persuasion; attention allocation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D8 D91 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: Unknown pages
Date: 2018-11-29
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