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| Diego Nocetti |
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| ''A Model of Mental Effort and Endogenous Estimation Risk'' |
| ( 2005, Vol. 4 No.14 ) |
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| 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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JEL: D8 - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty: General
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| Manuscript Received : Sep 22 2005 | | Manuscript Accepted : Dec 01 2005 |
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