1.
Psychopathy by U.S. State
Number of pages: 14
Posted: 12 Jun 2018
Working Paper Series
Southern Methodist University (SMU)
Downloads
33,998
2.
The Storrs Lectures: Behavioral Economics and Paternalism
Yale Law Journal, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 60
Posted: 02 Dec 2012
Last Revised: 22 Nov 2017
Working Paper Series
Harvard Law School
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16,013
3.
Beyond Markowitz: A Comprehensive Wealth Allocation Framework for Individual Investors
The Journal of Wealth Managment, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp 8-34, Spring 2005
Number of pages: 28
Posted: 21 Aug 2006
Accepted Paper Series
Institute for Advanced Study
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8,648
4.
Life-Cycle Finance in Theory and in Practice
Boston University School of Management Working Paper No. 2002-02
Number of pages: 15
Posted: 13 Jun 2002
Working Paper Series
Boston University - Department of Finance & Economics
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5,998
5.
Asset Valuations and Safe Portfolio Withdrawal Rates
Number of pages: 17
Posted: 28 Jun 2013
Last Revised: 01 Jul 2013
Working Paper Series
Morningstar Investment Management, The American College and The American College for Financial Services
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4,157
6.
Retirement Investing: A New Approach
Boston University School of Management Working Paper No. 2001-03
Number of pages: 12
Posted: 19 Feb 2001
Working Paper Series
Boston University - Department of Finance & Economics
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3,991
7.
The 4% Rule - At What Price?
Journal Of Investment Management (JOIM), Third Quarter 2009
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 02 Apr 2008
Last Revised: 10 Nov 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Financial Engines, Inc., Stanford University - Graduate School of Business and Stanford Graduate School of Business
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3,285
8.
Life-Cycle Funds
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 25 May 2007
Working Paper Series
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit
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3,030
9.
Franco Modigliani and the Life Cycle Theory of Consumption
Number of pages: 22
Posted: 12 Apr 2005
Working Paper Series
Princeton University
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2,830
10.
Illiquid Asset Investing
Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 13-2
Number of pages: 50
Posted: 13 Jan 2013
Working Paper Series
BlackRock, Inc
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2,603
11.
Automatically Green: Behavioral Economics and Environmental Protection
Harvard Environmental Law Review, Vol. 38, No. 1, 2014
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 07 Apr 2013
Last Revised: 01 Aug 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Law School and Copenhagen Business School - Department of Management, Society and Communication
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2,503
12.
Yours, Mine and Ours: Do Divorce Laws Affect the Intertemporal Behavior of Married Couples?
Number of pages: 54
Posted: 19 Feb 2012
Last Revised: 30 Jan 2015
Working Paper Series
University of Chicago
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2,389
13.
Making Investment Choices as Simple as Possible: An Analysis of Target Date Retirement Funds
Number of pages: 15
Posted: 04 May 2006
Working Paper Series
Boston University - Department of Finance & Economics and Research Affiliates
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2,339
14.
Tightwads and Spendthrifts
Number of pages: 44
Posted: 26 Apr 2006
Working Paper Series
University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis - John M. Olin Business School and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
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2,210
15.
The Theory of Life-Cycle Saving and Investing
FRB of Boston Public Policy Discussion Paper No. 07-3
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 27 Jul 2007
Working Paper Series
Boston University - Department of Finance & Economics, Research Affiliates and Federal Reserve Bank of Boston - Research Department
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2,150
16.
Behavioral Law and Economics: Its Origins, Fatal Flaws, and Implications for Liberty
Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 106, No. 3, 2012, George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 12-63
Number of pages: 59
Posted: 18 Sep 2012
Accepted Paper Series
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty and U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
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2,117
17.
Self Confidence: Intrapersonal Strategies
Woodrow Wilson School Working Paper No. 209
Number of pages: 51
Posted: 10 Apr 2000
Working Paper Series
Princeton University - Department of Economics and University of Toulouse 1 - Industrial Economic Institute (IDEI)
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2,024
18.
The Durapolist Puzzle: Monopoly Power in Durable-Goods Market
Yale Journal on Regulation, Vol. 21, pp. 67-118, 2004
Number of pages: 52
Posted: 18 Jun 2007
Last Revised: 31 Mar 2008
Accepted Paper Series
University of Arizona
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2,017
19.
Longevity Annuity: An Annuity for Everyone?
Number of pages: 18
Posted: 11 Jun 2007
Working Paper Series
Financial Engines, Inc.
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1,881
20.
Behavioral Law and Economics
Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 130, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 342
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 29 Jan 2007
Last Revised: 04 Feb 2009
Working Paper Series
Yale Law School
There are 2 versions of this paper
Behavioral Law and Economics
Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 130, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 342
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 29 Jan 2007
Last Revised: 04 Feb 2009
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1,841
Behavioral Law and Economics
NBER Working Paper No. w12879
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 31 Jan 2007
Last Revised: 11 Sep 2010
Downloads
88
Downloads
1,841
21.
The Role of Emotion in Economic Behavior
Number of pages: 35
Posted: 04 Jan 2007
Working Paper Series
University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
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1,697
22.
Selection and Moral Hazard in the Reverse Mortgage Market
Number of pages: 44
Posted: 25 Oct 2004
Working Paper Series
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and Baruch College - Zicklin School Business - Real Estate Department
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1,670
23.
The Future of the Internet - And How to Stop It
Jonathan Zittrain, THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNET - AND HOW TO STOP IT, Yale University Press, Penguin UK/Allen Lane, Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 36/2008
Number of pages: 352
Posted: 30 Apr 2008
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Law School and Harvard Kennedy School of Government
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1,666
24.
Incomplete Markets and Volatility
Harvard Institute of Economics Research Paper No. 1865
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 25 Sep 1998
Working Paper Series
EDHEC Business School - Department of Economics & Finance
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1,651
25.
The Effect of Language on Economic Behavior: Evidence from Savings Rates, Health Behaviors, and Retirement Assets
Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 1820
Number of pages: 57
Posted: 22 Aug 2011
Last Revised: 13 Dec 2012
Working Paper Series
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management
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1,622
26.
The Regulation of Consumer Financial Products: An Introductory Essay with Four Case Studies
HKS Working Paper No. RWP10-40
Number of pages: 52
Posted: 27 Jul 2010
Last Revised: 16 Dec 2010
Working Paper Series
Harvard University - Department of Economics, Harvard Law School, Brigham Young University Marriott School of Business and University of Oxford - Said Business School
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1,617
27.
Choosing Not to Choose
Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 14-07
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 11 Jan 2014
Last Revised: 12 Mar 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Law School
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1,591
28.
Dynamic Demand for New and Used Durable Goods without Physical Depreciation: The Case of Japanese Video Games
Rotman School of Management Working Paper No. 2189871
Number of pages: 51
Posted: 09 Feb 2020
Last Revised: 09 Feb 2020
Working Paper Series
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business and Johns Hopkins University - Carey Business School
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1,561
29.
Risk as Feelings
Psychological Bulletin, Vol. 127, 2001
Number of pages: 20
Posted: 11 Oct 2006
Accepted Paper Series
Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Princeton University - Department of Psychology and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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1,540
30.
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1,500
31.
Personal Investing: Advice, Theory, and Evidence from a Survey of Tiaa-Cref Participants
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 19 Jun 1997
Working Paper Series
Boston University - Department of Finance & Economics and Harvard Business School - Finance Unit
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1,492
32.
What's Advertising Content Worth? Evidence from a Consumer Credit Marketing Field Experiment
Yale University Economic Growth Center Discussion Paper No. 968, Yale Economics Department Working Paper No. 58
Number of pages: 35
Posted: 24 Jan 2009
Working Paper Series
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, Harvard University - Department of Economics, Princeton University and Dartmouth College
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1,390
33.
Promotion and Prevention in Consumer Decision Making: State of the Art and Theoretical Propositions
INSIDE CONSUMPTION: FRONTIERS OF RESEARCH ON CONSUMER MOTIVES, GOALS, AND DESIRES, S. Ratneshwar, David Glen Mick, eds., Routledge
Number of pages: 61
Posted: 02 Aug 2004
Accepted Paper Series
Columbia University - Columbia Business School and Columbia Business School - Management
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1,351
34.
Optimal Initiation of a GLWB in a Variable Annuity: No Arbitrage Approach
Number of pages: 23
Posted: 26 Feb 2013
Working Paper Series
York University - Schulich School of Business, York University - Department of Mathematics and Statistics and York University
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1,342
35.
Optimal Annuity Risk Management
CentER Working Paper Series No. 2006-78, EFA 2007 Ljubljana Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 53
Posted: 01 Mar 2007
Last Revised: 03 Sep 2009
Working Paper Series
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Tilburg University - Tilburg University School of Economics and Management and Tilburg University - Center for Economic Research (CentER)
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1,296
36.
Optimal Forecasts of Long-Term Returns: Geometric, Arithmetic, or Other Means
Boston College Working Paper
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 17 Dec 2002
Working Paper Series
Boston University School of Management, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IRPS) and Boston College - Department of Finance
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1,235
37.
Market Beta Dynamics and Portfolio Efficiency
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 03 May 2005
Working Paper Series
University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School and Boston University School of Management
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1,220
38.
Choice Architecture and Retirement Saving Plans
Number of pages: 52
Posted: 11 Jul 2007
Last Revised: 21 Feb 2011
Working Paper Series
University of California at Los Angeles, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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1,211
39.
Self-Rationing: Self-Control in Consumer Choice
INSEAD Working Paper No. 2001/63/MKT
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 16 Jan 2002
Working Paper Series
INSEAD - Marketing
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1,177
40.
Optimal Dynamic Trading Strategies with Risk Limits
Operations Research, Vol. 56, pp. 358-368, 2008
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 14 Jul 2004
Last Revised: 05 Dec 2011
Accepted Paper Series
University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department, Yale University - School of Management and Concordia University, Quebec - Department of Finance
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1,161
41.
The Knowledge Tax
82 University of Chicago Law Review 1981 (2015)
Number of pages: 63
Posted: 20 Jan 2015
Last Revised: 18 Dec 2015
Accepted Paper Series
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
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1,154
42.
Household Portfolios in the United States
FEDS Working Paper No. 2000-26
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 16 Nov 2000
Working Paper Series
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and American University - Department of Economics
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1,136
43.
Required Retirement Savings Rates Today
Number of pages: 22
Posted: 18 Oct 2016
Working Paper Series
Morningstar Investment Management, The American College and The American College for Financial Services
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1,122
44.
Behavioral Economics, Consumption, and Environmental Protection
Forthcoming in Handbook on Research in Sustainable Consumption (Lucia Reisch & John Thøgersen eds.),
Number of pages: 29
Posted: 21 Jul 2013
Working Paper Series
Harvard Law School
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1,073
45.
When Can Life-Cycle Investors Benefit from Time-Varying Bond Risk Premia?
EFA 2007 Ljubljana Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 01 Mar 2007
Last Revised: 04 Feb 2009
Working Paper Series
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Tilburg University - Tilburg University School of Economics and Management and Tilburg University - Center for Economic Research (CentER)
There are 2 versions of this paper
When Can Life-Cycle Investors Benefit from Time-Varying Bond Risk Premia?
EFA 2007 Ljubljana Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 01 Mar 2007
Last Revised: 04 Feb 2009
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1,069
When Can Life Cycle Investors Benefit from Time-Varying Bond Risk Premia?
Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 23, Issue 2, pp. 741-780, 2009
Posted: 01 Feb 2010
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1,069
46.
Cross-National Differences in Risk Preference and Lay Predictions
Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Vol. 12, 1999
Number of pages: 15
Posted: 11 Oct 2006
Accepted Paper Series
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Princeton University - Department of Psychology
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1,059
47.
Portfolio Choice in Retirement: Health Risk and the Demand for Annuities, Housing, and Risky Assets
Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 80, 2016, Boston College Center for Retirement Research Working Paper No. 2009-3, AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 06 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 19 May 2016
Accepted Paper Series
Princeton University - Department of Economics
There are 2 versions of this paper
Portfolio Choice in Retirement: Health Risk and the Demand for Annuities, Housing, and Risky Assets
Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 80, 2016, Boston College Center for Retirement Research Working Paper No. 2009-3, AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 06 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 19 May 2016
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1,044
Portfolio Choice in Retirement: Health Risk and the Demand for Annuities, Housing, and Risky Assets
NBER Working Paper No. w15307
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 08 Sep 2009
Last Revised: 25 Sep 2010
Downloads
42
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1,044
48.
COVID-19 Data: The Logarithmic Scale Misinforms the Public and Affects Policy Preferences
Number of pages: 19
Posted: 29 Apr 2020
Last Revised: 11 May 2020
Working Paper Series
Yale Law School, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE), Yale Law School and Yale Law School
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1,042
49.
Household Expenditure and the Income Tax Rebates of 2001
Number of pages: 38
Posted: 03 Jan 2005
Last Revised: 13 Dec 2011
Working Paper Series
Bureau of Labor Statistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
There are 2 versions of this paper
Household Expenditure and the Income Tax Rebates of 2001
Number of pages: 38
Posted: 03 Jan 2005
Last Revised: 13 Dec 2011
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1,038
Household Expenditure and the Income Tax Rebates of 2001
NBER Working Paper No. w10784
Number of pages: 38
Posted: 20 Sep 2004
Last Revised: 04 Oct 2004
Downloads
55
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1,038
50.
Decision and Experience: Why Don't We Choose What Makes Us Happy?
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2006
Number of pages: 7
Posted: 11 Oct 2006
Last Revised: 10 Nov 2008
Accepted Paper Series
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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1,024
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