Alex Imas

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

5807 S. Woodlawn Avenue

Chicago, IL 60637

United States

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Selling Fast and Buying Slow: Heuristics and Trading Performance of Institutional Investors

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Selling Fast and Buying Slow: Heuristics and Trading Performance of Institutional Investors

Number of pages: 92 Posted: 02 Jan 2019 Last Revised: 20 Jul 2021
Klakow Akepanidtaworn, Rick Di Mascio, Alex Imas and Lawrence Schmidt
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Inalytics Limited, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and MIT Sloan School of Management
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Heuristics, Behavioral Finance, Expert Decision-Making, Limited Attention

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Dynamic Inconsistency in Risky Choice: Evidence from the Lab and Field

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Dynamic Inconsistency in Risky Choice: Evidence from the Lab and Field

Number of pages: 87 Posted: 09 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 27 Aug 2023
Rawley Heimer, Zwetelina Iliewa, Alex Imas and Martin Weber
Arizona State University (ASU) - W.P. Carey School of Business, University of Bonn - Department of Economics, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of Mannheim - Department of Banking and Finance
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dynamic risk taking, choice under uncertainty, probability weighting, dynamic inconsistency, behavioral economics, retail trading, limit orders

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Ownership, Learning, and Beliefs

10th Miami Behavioral Finance Conference
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 17 Oct 2019 Last Revised: 04 Jan 2021
Samuel M. Hartzmark, Samuel Hirshman, Samuel Hirshman and Alex Imas
Boston College - Carroll School of Management, University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of BusinessUniversity of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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biased beliefs, attention, ownership, attention, behavioral economics, learning, extrapolation

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Over- and Underreaction to Information

Number of pages: 110 Posted: 21 Nov 2022 Last Revised: 31 Aug 2024
Cuimin Ba, J. Aislinn Bohren and Alex Imas
University of Pittsburgh - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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overreaction, underreaction, beliefs, noisy cognition, representativeness, behavioral economics, learning

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Biased By Choice: How Financial Constraints Can Reduce Financial Mistakes

Review of Financial Studies, Forthcoming, 9th Miami Behavioral Finance Conference 2018
Number of pages: 83 Posted: 29 Dec 2018 Last Revised: 23 Nov 2020
Rawley Heimer and Alex Imas
Arizona State University (ASU) - W.P. Carey School of Business and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Behavioral Finance, Financial Decision-Making, Leverage, Disposition Effect, Realization Utility

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Do People Anticipate Loss Aversion?

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Do People Anticipate Loss Aversion?

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 20 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2015
Alex Imas, Sally Sadoff and Anya Samek
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Rady School of Management and University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Rady School of Management
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loss aversion, incentives, contracts, framing

Do People Anticipate Loss Aversion?

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 5277
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 13 Apr 2015
Alex Imas, Sally Sadoff and Anya Samek
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Rady School of Management and University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Rady School of Management
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On the Role of Similarity in Mental Accounting and Hedonic Editing

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 23 Sep 2019 Last Revised: 02 Aug 2021
Ellen Evers, Alex Imas and Christy Kang
UC Berkeley, Haas, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Mental Accounting, Hedonic Editing, Similarity, Categorization, Prospect theory, Intertemporal preferences

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A Cognitive Foundation for Perceiving Uncertainty

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A Cognitive Foundation for Perceiving Uncertainty

Number of pages: 128 Posted: 13 Feb 2024 Last Revised: 01 Apr 2024
J. Aislinn Bohren, Josh Hascher, Alex Imas, Michael Ungeheuer and Martin Weber
University of Pennsylvania, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Aalto University and University of Mannheim - Department of Banking and Finance
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Choice Under Risk, Prospect Theory, Salience and Regret Theory, Description-Experience Gap, Attention, Salience, Memory

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The Dynamics of Discrimination: Theory and Evidence

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Citation 113

The Dynamics of Discrimination: Theory and Evidence

PIER Working Paper No. 18-016
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 20 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 23 Aug 2018
J. Aislinn Bohren, Alex Imas and Michael Rosenberg
University of Pennsylvania, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Wayfair, Inc.
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Discrimination, Dynamic Behavior, Field Experiment

The Dynamics of Discrimination: Theory and Evidence

PIER Working Paper No. 17-021
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 04 Dec 2017
J. Aislinn Bohren, Alex Imas and Michael Rosenberg
University of Pennsylvania, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Wayfair, Inc.
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Discrimination, Dynamic Behavior, Field Experiment

The Dynamics of Discrimination: Theory and Evidence

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP13113
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 21 Aug 2018
J. Aislinn Bohren, Alex Imas and Michael Rosenberg
University of Pennsylvania, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Wayfair LLC
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Inaccurate Statistical Discrimination: An Identification Problem

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Inaccurate Statistical Discrimination: An Identification Problem

University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper No. 2019-86
Number of pages: 88 Posted: 11 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 03 Aug 2021
J. Aislinn Bohren, Kareem Haggag, Alex Imas and Devin G. Pope
University of Pennsylvania, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Inaccurate Statistical Discrimination: An Identification Problem

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP13790
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 29 Jul 2019 Last Revised: 31 Mar 2021
J. Aislinn Bohren, Kareem Haggag, Alex Imas and Devin G. Pope
University of Pennsylvania, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Behavioral Food Subsidies

Number of pages: 99 Posted: 19 Jul 2019 Last Revised: 29 Jun 2022
Andy Brownback, Alex Imas and Michael Kuhn
University of Arkansas, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of Oregon - Department of Economics
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nutrition, subsidies, agency, deliberation, waiting periods, field experiment

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Working for 'Warm Glow': On the Benefits and Limits of Prosocial Incentives

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 23 Oct 2013
Alex Imas
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Prosocial, incentives, warm glow

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Dominance-Seeking and the Economics of Exclusion

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 05 Aug 2020 Last Revised: 12 Jul 2021
Alex Imas and Kristof Madarasz
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE)
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Mimetic Preferences, Objects of Desire, Exclusion, Trade, Competition, Inequality, Veblen Goods

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Waiting to Choose: The Role of Deliberation in Intertemporal Choice

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 6162
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 06 Dec 2016
Alex Imas, Michael Kuhn and Vera Mironova
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, University of Oregon - Department of Economics and Harvard University
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time preferences, waiting periods, heuristics, deliberation, field experiments

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Superiority-Seeking and the Preference for Exclusion

University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper No. 108, 2022
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 16 Aug 2022 Last Revised: 26 Jan 2023
Alex Imas and Kristof Madarasz
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and LSE
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social preferences, ownership, pricing, exclusivity, marketing, political economy, inequality, stratification, discrimination

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Mental Money Laundering: A Motivated Violation of Fungibility

Number of pages: 71 Posted: 05 Sep 2020 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2020
Alex Imas, George Loewenstein and Carey Morewedge
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences and Boston University - Questrom School of Business
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Mental accounting; moral behavior; source dependence; money laundering

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Lab in the Field: Measuring Preferences in the Wild

Forthcoming in the Handbook of Field Experiments, edited by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, CESifo Working Paper Series No. 5953
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 19 Jul 2016
Uri Gneezy and Alex Imas
University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Rady School of Management and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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experiments, methodology, field experiments

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Inaccurate Statistical Discrimination: An Identification Problem

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Inaccurate Statistical Discrimination: An Identification Problem

PIER Working Paper No. 19-010, May 2019
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 19 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 23 Mar 2021
J. Aislinn Bohren, Kareem Haggag, Alex Imas and Devin G. Pope
University of Pennsylvania, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Discrimination, Inaccurate Beliefs, Model misspecification

Inaccurate Statistical Discrimination: An Identification Problem

NBER Working Paper No. w25935
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 11 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 14 May 2023
J. Aislinn Bohren, Kareem Haggag, Alex Imas and Devin G. Pope
University of Pennsylvania, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Are Non-Contingent Incentives More Effective in Motivating New Behavior? Evidence from the Field

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 11 Jan 2021 Last Revised: 26 Oct 2021
Angelica Cordova, Alex Imas and Daniel Schwartz
University of Chile, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of Chile
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non-contingent incentives, heterogeneity, prosocial behavior, recycling, sorting, selection, behavior change

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A History of Violence: Field Evidence on Trauma, Discounting and Present Bias

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 5338
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 07 May 2015
Alex Imas, Michael Kuhn and Vera Mironova
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, University of Oregon - Department of Economics and Harvard University
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present bias, violence, field experiments

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In Victory or Defeat: Consumption Responses to Wealth Shocks

University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper No. 2022-141
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 20 Oct 2022
Alex Imas, Tse-Chun Lin, Yan Luo and Xiaohuan Wang
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Business and Economics, Fudan University - School of Management and Shanghai National Accounting Institute
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Wealth shocks, Consumption responses, Behavioral finance, Individual investors, Financial retail therapy, Digital payment data

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Systemic Discrimination: Theory and Measurement

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Systemic Discrimination: Theory and Measurement

University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper No. 2022-53
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 20 Apr 2022
J. Aislinn Bohren, Peter Hull and Alex Imas
University of Pennsylvania, Brown University and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Estimating Individual Ambiguity Aversion: A Simple Approach

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Estimating Individual Ambiguity Aversion: A Simple Approach

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 5220
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 10 Mar 2015
Uri Gneezy, Alex Imas and John A. List
University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Rady School of Management, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of Chicago - Department of Economics
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ambiguity aversion, experiments, estimation

Estimating Individual Ambiguity Aversion: A Simple Approach

NBER Working Paper No. w20982
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 02 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 01 May 2023
Uri Gneezy, Alex Imas and John A. List
University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Rady School of Management, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of Chicago - Department of Economics
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Opting-In to Prosocial Incentives

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 6840
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 27 Feb 2018
Daniel Schwartz, Elizabeth Keenan, Alex Imas and Ayelet Gneezy
University of Chile, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Rady School of Management, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Rady School of Management
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decision making, incentives, prosocial behavior, field experiments

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The Impact of Prediction Mode on Forecasting Accuracy: The Role of Mental Models

University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper No. 2022-143
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 26 Oct 2022 Last Revised: 27 Nov 2023
Alex Imas, Minah Jung, Silvia Saccardo and Joachim Vosgerau
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, New York University (NYU) - Department of Marketing, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Social and Decision Sciences and Bocconi University
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Forecasting, Choice under Uncertainty, Prediction

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Regret in One-Shot and Recurrent Decisions: A Cautionary Tale

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 5939
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 07 Jul 2016
Alex Imas, Diego Lamé and Alistair J. Wilson
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, University of Pittsburgh and University of Pittsburgh
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regret aversion, separability, incentives

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Mimetic Dominance and the Economics of Exclusion: Private Goods in Public Contexts

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15016
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 28 Jul 2020 Last Revised: 16 Aug 2020
Alex Imas and Kristof Madarasz
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE)
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Competition, Exclusion, inequality, Mimetic Preferences, Objects of Desire, Trade

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The Realization Effect: Risk-Taking after Realized versus Paper Losses

Posted: 04 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 22 Aug 2014
Alex Imas
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

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dynamic risk attitudes, prior losses, choice bracketing