‘Nudging’ risky decision-making: The causal influence of information order

Jason Aimone, Sheryl Ball and Brooks King-Casas

Economics Letters, 2016, vol. 149, issue C, 161-163

Abstract: Recent studies have suggested a correlation between information acquisition and value maximization in risky decision-making. We show that changing how information is acquired can “nudge” agents into riskier decisions, suggesting that choice architecture influences observed risky decisions.

Keywords: Risky decision making; Expected value maximization; Nudging; Experiment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C91 D81 D87 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2016.10.030

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