Matthew Rabin

University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics

549 Evans Hall #3880

Berkeley, CA 94720-3880

United States

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Regulation for Conservatives: Behavioral Economics and the Case for 'Asymmetric Paternalism'

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 151, p. 1211, 2003, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 225
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 29 Apr 2003 Last Revised: 10 Nov 2010
Colin Camerer, Samuel Issacharoff, George Loewenstein, Ted O'Donoghue and Matthew Rabin
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, New York University School of Law, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Cornell University - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
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behavioral economics, regulation, paternalism

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Understanding Social Preference with Simple Tests

Univ. Pompeu Fabra, Economics and Business Working Paper No. 441
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 26 Jun 2000
Gary Charness and Matthew Rabin
University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
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Citation 290

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Difference Aversion, Fairness, Inequity Aversion, Social Welfare, Non-Ultimatum Games, Reciprocal Fairness, Social Preferences, Ultimatum Games.

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A Perspective on Psychology and Economics

UC Berkeley Economics Working Paper No. E02-313
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 04 May 2005
Matthew Rabin
University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
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behavioral economics, psychology

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The Gambler's and Hot-Hand Fallacies: Theory and Applications

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The Gambler's and Hot-Hand Fallacies: Theory and Applications

AFA 2010 Atlanta Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 03 Jan 2007 Last Revised: 19 Oct 2009
Matthew Rabin and Dimitri Vayanos
University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics and London School of Economics
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Gambler's fallacy, Hot-hand fallacy, Dynamic inference, Behavioral Finance

The Gambler's and Hot-Hand Fallacies: Theory and Applications

CEPR Discussion Paper No. 6081
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 02 Aug 2007
Matthew Rabin and Dimitri Vayanos
University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics and London School of Economics
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Behavioural finance, gambler's fallacy, hot-hand fallacy

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Projection Bias in Predicting Future Utility

U.C. Berkeley Economics Working Paper E00-284
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 06 Nov 2000
George Loewenstein, Ted O'Donoghue and Matthew Rabin
Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Cornell University - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
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Addiction, Consumption, Cooling Off, Misprediction, Projection Bias, Reference Dependence

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Expressed Preferences and Behavior in Experimental Games

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 14 Jan 2003
Gary Charness and Matthew Rabin
University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
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Beliefs, Experiment, Expressed Preferences, Positive Reciprocity, Social Preferences

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Conclusions Regarding Cross-Group Differences in Happiness Depend on Difficulty of Reaching Respondents

American Economic Review, 103(7): 3001-3021
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 06 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 20 Dec 2013
Ori Heffetz and Matthew Rabin
Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
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nonresponse bias, selection bias, happiness, surveys

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Expectations-Based Loss Aversion May Help Explain Seemingly Dominated Choices in Strategy-Proof Mechanisms

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Expectations-Based Loss Aversion May Help Explain Seemingly Dominated Choices in Strategy-Proof Mechanisms

Number of pages: 70 Posted: 30 May 2019 Last Revised: 08 Jul 2021
Bnaya Dreyfuss, Ori Heffetz and Matthew Rabin
Harvard University, Students, Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
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dominated strategies, market design, obvious misrepresentation, school choice, strategy-proof, expectations, beliefs, reference-dependent preferences, endowment effect, prospect theory, first-order-stochastic-dominance violations

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Narrow Bracketing and Dominated Choices

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3040
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 18 Sep 2007
Matthew Rabin and Georg Weizsacker
University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics and Humboldt University Berlin
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Lottery choice, narrow framing, representative-sample experiments

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A Model of Non-Belief in the Law of Large Numbers

Number of pages: 106 Posted: 19 Oct 2011 Last Revised: 30 Oct 2012
Daniel J. Benjamin, Daniel J. Benjamin, Matthew Rabin and Collin Raymond
Anderson School of ManagementUSC, Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR), University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Economics
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under-inference, non-Bayesian updating, conservatism bias, representativeness heuristic

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Financial Markets Where Traders Neglect the Informational Content of Prices

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Financial Markets Where Traders Neglect the Informational Content of Prices

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 15 Feb 2018
Erik Eyster, Matthew Rabin and Dimitri Vayanos
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics and London School of Economics
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behavioral finance, asymmetric information, trading volume, cursedness, overconfidence

Financial Markets Where Traders Neglect the Informational Content of Prices

NBER Working Paper No. w21224
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 01 Jun 2015 Last Revised: 30 Jun 2023
Erik Eyster, Matthew Rabin and Dimitri Vayanos
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics and London School of Economics
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Financial Markets Where Traders Neglect the Informational Content of Prices

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP10629
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 01 Jun 2015
Erik Eyster, Matthew Rabin and Dimitri Vayanos
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics and London School of Economics
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behavioral finance, cursedness, financial markets, overconfidence, return predictability, trading volume

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Estimating Perceptions of the Relative COVID Risk of Different Social-Distancing Behaviors from Respondents' Pairwise Assessments

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Estimating Perceptions of the Relative COVID Risk of Different Social-Distancing Behaviors from Respondents' Pairwise Assessments

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 22 Sep 2022
Ori Heffetz and Matthew Rabin
Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
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risk perceptions, COVID, health risk, social distance, perceived tradeoffs, belief elicitation, survey data, pairwise choice, elbow bumps

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Rational and Naive Herding

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP7351
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 26 Aug 2009
Erik Eyster and Matthew Rabin
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
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Cursed equiliibrium, Herding, Naive inference, Social Learning

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Choice and Procrastination

Posted: 10 Aug 2000
Ted O'Donoghue and Matthew Rabin
Cornell University - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics

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Choice, Naivete, Partial Naivete, Present-Biased Preferences, Procrastination, Self Control, Sophistication, Time Inconsistency