A Model of Mental Effort and Endogenous Estimation Risk

Diego Nocetti

Economics Bulletin, 2005, vol. 4, issue 14, 1-10

Abstract: I present a simple model that formalizes Kahneman's (1973) ideas and experimental work on attention limitations. In addition, I extend his framework to account for the interaction between attention and memory deficits. In particular, I propose that individuals optimally allocate their divisible, but limited, attention to estimate parameters of an economic model, by retrieving observations from a stock of memories, by means of a cognition technology. I speculate that the model might help explain several stylized facts that are at odds with an infinite capacity (fully rational) model.

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Date: 2005-12-01
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