Abstract:This paper aim to uncover the decision processes used by average investors, including their investment goals, the information sets they consider, and the number of factors that actually influence high-stakes financial decisions. We present new experimental and survey data collected from bank customers at several Italian banks. Most subjects use a strict subset of the information available to them, ignoring variables that standard economic models typically assume drive investors' behavior. Fast and information-… Show more
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