Richard H. Thaler

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

Ralph and Dorothy Keller Distinguished Service Professor of Economics and Behavioral Science

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Choice Architecture

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Choice Architecture

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 02 Apr 2010
Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein and John P. Balz
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Harvard Law School and University of Chicago - Political Science Department
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Behavioral Economics, Public Policy, Nudge, Psychology

Choice Architecture

The Behavioral Foundations of Public Policy, Ch. 25, Eldar Shafir, ed. (2012).
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 13 Dec 2014
Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein and John P. Balz
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Harvard Law School and University of Chicago - Political Science Department
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Behavioral Economics, Public Policy, Nudge, Psychology

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A Survey of Behavioral Finance

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A Survey of Behavioral Finance

Number of pages: 77 Posted: 04 Oct 2002
Nicholas Barberis, Nicholas Barberis and Richard H. Thaler
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)Yale School of Management and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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behavioral finance, market efficiency, limits to arbitrage, psychology, investor behavior

A Survey of Behavioral Finance

NBER Working Paper No. w9222
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 19 Sep 2002 Last Revised: 14 Sep 2022
Nicholas Barberis, Nicholas Barberis and Richard H. Thaler
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)Yale School of Management and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Deal or No Deal? Decision Making under Risk in a Large-Payoff Game Show

American Economic Review, Vol. 98, No. 1, pp. 38-71, March 2008
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 16 Dec 2004 Last Revised: 21 Feb 2012
Thierry Post, Martijn J. van den Assem, Guido Baltussen and Richard H. Thaler
Graduate School of Business of Nazarbayev University, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Decision making under risk, Expected utility theory, Prospect theory

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Behavioral Economics: Past, Present and Future

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 08 Jun 2016
Richard H. Thaler
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Behavioral Economics

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Behavioral Economics

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Behavioral Economics

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 23 Oct 2000
Sendhil Mullainathan and Richard H. Thaler
University of Chicago and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Behavioral Economics

NBER Working Paper No. w7948
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 12 Oct 2000 Last Revised: 21 Sep 2022
Sendhil Mullainathan and Richard H. Thaler
University of Chicago and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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The Loser's Curse: Decision Making & Market Efficiency in the National Football League Draft

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 05 Apr 2005 Last Revised: 05 Sep 2012
Cade Massey and Richard H. Thaler
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Market efficiency, rational expectations, behavioral decision theory, labor markets

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Libertarian Paternalism is Not an Oxymoron

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 09 May 2003
Cass R. Sunstein and Richard H. Thaler
Harvard Law School and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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paternalism, savings, behavioral economics, libertarianism

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Split or Steal? Cooperative Behavior When the Stakes Are Large

Management Science, Vol. 58, No. 1, pp. 2-20, January 2012
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 19 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 23 Jan 2013
Martijn J. van den Assem, Dennie van Dolder and Richard H. Thaler
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, University of Essex - Department of Economics and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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natural experiment, game show, prisoner’s dilemma, cooperation, cooperative behavior, social behavior, social preferences, reciprocity, reciprocal behavior, context effects, anchoring

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Dividend Changes Do Not Signal Changes in Future Profitability

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 08 Oct 2003
Gustavo Grullon, Roni Michaely, Shlomo Benartzi and Richard H. Thaler
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, The University of Hong Kong, University of California at Los Angeles and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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A Behavioral Approach to Law and Economics

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A Behavioral Approach to Law and Economics

50 Stanford Law Rev. 1471 (1998)
Number of pages: 80 Posted: 11 Jul 2013
Christine Jolls, Christine Jolls, Cass R. Sunstein and Richard H. Thaler
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)Yale Law School, Harvard Law School and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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A Behavioral Approach to Law and Economics

Stanford Law Review, July 1998
Posted: 09 Apr 1998
Christine Jolls, Christine Jolls, Cass R. Sunstein and Richard H. Thaler
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)Yale Law School, Harvard Law School and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

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A Behavioral Approach to Law and Economics

Posted: 07 Jul 1998
Christine Jolls, Christine Jolls, Cass R. Sunstein and Richard H. Thaler
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)Yale Law School, Harvard Law School and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

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Heuristics and Biases in Retirement Savings Behavior

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 22 Jan 2007
Shlomo Benartzi and Richard H. Thaler
University of California at Los Angeles and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Retirement savings, 401(k) plans, behavioral finance

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Gambling with the House Money and Trying to Break Even: The Effects of Prior Outcomes on Risky Choice

Management Science, Vol. 36, No. 6, pp. 643-660, 1990
Posted: 29 Jun 2009
Richard H. Thaler and Eric J. Johnson
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Marketing
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decision making, prospect theory, sunk costs, mental accounting

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Anomalies: Utility Maximization and Experienced Utility

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 16 Dec 2005
Daniel Kahneman and Richard H. Thaler
Princeton University and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Utility Maximization, Experienced Utility, Behavioral Economics

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Can the Market Add and Subtract? Mispricing in Tech Stock Carve-Outs

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Can the Market Add and Subtract? Mispricing in Tech Stock Carve-Outs

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 16 Dec 2000
Owen A. Lamont and Richard H. Thaler
Harvard University - Department of Economics and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Carve-out, mispricing, arbitrage, put-call parity, short-sale constraints

Can the Market Add and Subtract? Mispricing in Tech Stock Carve-Outs

NBER Working Paper No. w8302
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 17 May 2001 Last Revised: 10 Mar 2022
Owen A. Lamont and Richard H. Thaler
Harvard University - Department of Economics and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Can the Market Add and Subtract? Mispricing in Tech Stock Carve-Outs

Posted: 16 Jun 2003
Owen A. Lamont and Richard H. Thaler
Harvard University - Department of Economics and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

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Choice Architecture and Retirement Saving Plans

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 11 Jul 2007 Last Revised: 21 Feb 2011
Shlomo Benartzi, Ehud Peleg and Richard H. Thaler
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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Retirement saving plans, Investment decisions, Life-cycle

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Annuity Puzzles

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2011
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 14 Oct 2011
Shlomo Benartzi, Alessandro Previtero and Richard H. Thaler
University of California at Los Angeles, Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Finance and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Behavioral Finance, Household FInance, Annuity Puzzle, Inertia, Framing Effects

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Invest Now, Drink Later, Spend Never: The Mental Accounting of Delayed Consumption

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 17 May 2006
Eldar Shafir and Richard H. Thaler
Princeton University and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Mental Accounting, Intertemporal Choice, Consumer Behavior

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When Nudges are Forever: Inertia in the Swedish Premium Pension Plan

AEA Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 108 May 2018
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 17 Jan 2018 Last Revised: 27 Oct 2018
Henrik Cronqvist, Richard H. Thaler and Frank Yu
Chapman University - The George L. Argyros School of Business & Economics, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and China Europe International Business School
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behavioral economics, retirement saving, pension, nudge, default choice

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Myopic Loss Aversion and the Equity Premium Puzzle

NBER Working Paper No. w4369
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 19 Jun 2004 Last Revised: 11 Dec 2022
Shlomo Benartzi and Richard H. Thaler
University of California at Los Angeles and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Should Governments Invest More in Nudging?

Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 17-42
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 08 Jun 2017
Shlomo Benartzi, John Beshears, Katherine L. Milkman, Cass R. Sunstein, Richard H. Thaler, Maya Shankar, Will Tucker-Ray, William Congdon and Steven Galing
University of California at Los Angeles, Harvard University - Business School (HBS), University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Harvard Law School, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Google Inc., ideas42, ideas42 and Government of the United States of America - Department of Defense
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nudge, nudge unit, choice architecture, behavioral science, behavioral economics, savings, pension plan, education, college enrollment, energy, electricity usage, preventive health, influenza vaccination, flu shot

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A City-Wide Experiment Testing the Impact of Geographically-Targeted, High-Payoff Vaccine Lotteries

Katherine L. Milkman, Linnea Gandhi, Sean F. Ellis, Heather N. Graci, Dena M. Gromet, Rayyan S. Mobarak, Allison M. Buttenheim, Angela L. Duckworth, Devin Pope, Ala Stanford, Richard Thaler & Kevin G. Volpp. “A citywide experiment testing the impact of geographically targeted, high-pay-off vaccine l
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 16 Aug 2021 Last Revised: 17 Oct 2022
Katherine L. Milkman, Linnea Gandhi, Sean Ellis, Heather Graci, Dena Gromet, Rayyan Mobarak, Alison Buttenheim, Angela Duckworth, Devin G. Pope, Ala Stanford, Richard H. Thaler and Kevin Volpp
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania - Department of Psychology, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of Pennsylvania - Perelman School of Medicine, Department of Medicine
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COVID-19, regret lottery, vaccination, vaccine hesitancy, field experiment, behavioral science, incentives

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The Nominal Price Puzzle

AFA 2007 Chicago Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 16 Mar 2006
William Charles Weld, Shlomo Benartzi, Roni Michaely and Richard H. Thaler
affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of California at Los Angeles, The University of Hong Kong and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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nominal prices, stock splits, norms

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Individual Preferences, Monetary Gambles and the Equity Premium

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Individual Preferences, Monetary Gambles and the Equity Premium

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 14 Oct 2003
Nicholas Barberis, Nicholas Barberis, Ming Huang and Richard H. Thaler
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)Yale School of Management, Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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risk aversion, framing, loss aversion, stock market participation, equity premium

Individual Preferences, Monetary Gambles and the Equity Premium

NBER Working Paper No. w9997
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 28 Sep 2003 Last Revised: 27 Oct 2022
Nicholas Barberis, Nicholas Barberis, Ming Huang and Richard H. Thaler
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)Yale School of Management, Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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How Much is Investor Autonomy Worth?

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How Much is Investor Autonomy Worth?

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 21 Dec 2001
Shlomo Benartzi and Richard H. Thaler
University of California at Los Angeles and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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How Much is Investor Autonomy Worth?

Posted: 30 Dec 2003
Shlomo Benartzi and Richard H. Thaler
University of California at Los Angeles and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

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Individual Preferences, Monetary Gambles, and Stock Market Participation: A Case for Narrow Framing

American Economic Review, Vol. 96, No. 4, September 2006
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 10 Jul 2006
Nicholas Barberis, Nicholas Barberis, Ming Huang and Richard H. Thaler
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)Yale School of Management, Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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risk aversion, framing, loss aversion, stock market participation

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Financial Decision-Making in Markets and Firms: A Behavioral Perspective

NBER Working Paper No. w4777
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 01 Jul 2003 Last Revised: 23 Jul 2022
Werner F.M. DeBondt and Richard H. Thaler
DePaul University - Driehaus Center for Behavioral Finance and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Who's on First: Book Review of Moneyball by Michael Lewis

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 01 Oct 2011
Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Harvard Law School
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baseball, behavioral economics

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Company Stock, Market Rationality, and Legal Reform

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 09 Aug 2004
Shlomo Benartzi, Richard H. Thaler, Stephen P. Utkus and Cass R. Sunstein
University of California at Los Angeles, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Law School
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Bounded rationality, company stock, behavioral economics, employee compensation

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An Economic Theory of Self-Control

NBER Working Paper No. w0208
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 15 Feb 2001 Last Revised: 29 Jul 2022
Hersh Shefrin and Richard H. Thaler
Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Economía del comportamiento: pasado, presente y futuro (Behavioral Economics: Past, Present, and Future)

Revista de Economía Institucional, Vol. 20, No. 38, 2018
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 25 Apr 2018
Richard H. Thaler
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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behavioral economics, human behavior, normative models, descriptive models, supposedly irrelevant factors

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Helping Consumers Know Themselves

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 18 Jan 2011
Emir Kamenica, Sendhil Mullainathan and Richard H. Thaler
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business - Economics, University of Chicago and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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disclosure, regulation

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Standing United or Falling Divided? High Stakes Bargaining in a TV Game Show

American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 105, No. 5, pp. 402-407, May 2015
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 25 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 16 May 2015
Dennie van Dolder, Martijn J. van den Assem, Colin Camerer and Richard H. Thaler
University of Essex - Department of Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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bargaining, negotiation, game show, natural experiment, equity theory, moral property rights, entitlements, fairness, concessions, first-mover advantage

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Price Reactions to Dividend Initiations and Omissions: Overreaction or Drift?

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Price Reactions to Dividend Initiations and Omissions: Overreaction or Drift?

NBER Working Paper No. w4778
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 01 Jul 2003 Last Revised: 24 Jul 2022
Roni Michaely, Richard H. Thaler and Kent L. Womack
The University of Hong Kong, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management (Deceased)
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Price Reactions to Dividend Initiations and Omissions: Overreaction or Drift?

Posted: 10 May 2000
Roni Michaely, Richard H. Thaler and Kent L. Womack
The University of Hong Kong, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management (Deceased)

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Window Dressing by Pension Fund Managers

NBER Working Paper No. w3617
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 08 Jan 2008 Last Revised: 22 Jul 2023
Josef Lakonishok, Andrei Shleifer, Richard H. Thaler and Robert W. Vishny
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Harvard University - Department of Economics, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Investor Sentiment and the Closed-End Fund Puzzle

NBER Working Paper No. w3465
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 27 Jun 2007 Last Revised: 22 Dec 2022
Charles Lee, Andrei Shleifer and Richard H. Thaler
Cornell University - Department of Policy Analysis and Management, Harvard University - Department of Economics and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Overconfidence vs. Market Efficiency in the National Football League

NBER Working Paper No. w11270
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 31 May 2005 Last Revised: 19 Oct 2022
Cade Massey and Richard H. Thaler
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Nominal Share Price Puzzle

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 121-42, Spring 2009
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 27 Apr 2010
William Charles Weld, Roni Michaely, Richard H. Thaler and Shlomo Benartzi
affiliation not provided to SSRN, The University of Hong Kong, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of California at Los Angeles
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nominal prices, stock splits, norms

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Public Policy Toward Life Saving: Maximize Lives Saved vs. Consumer Sovereignty

NBER Working Paper No. w0419
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 28 Jun 2004 Last Revised: 26 Aug 2022
William Gould and Richard H. Thaler
Independent and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Save More Tomorrow: Using Behavioral Economics to Increase Employee Saving

Posted: 26 Jan 2004
Shlomo Benartzi and Richard H. Thaler
University of California at Los Angeles and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

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The Loser's Curse: Overconfidence vs. Market Efficiency in the National Football League Draft - Electronic Appendix

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 05 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 16 Aug 2012
Cade Massey and Richard H. Thaler
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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