Context-Dependent Heterogeneous Preferences: A Comment on Barseghyan and Molinari (2023)

no code implementations • 18 May 2023 • Matias D. Cattaneo, Xinwei Ma, Yusufcan Masatlioglu

Barseghyan and Molinari (2023) give sufficient conditions for semi-nonparametric point identification of parameters of interest in a mixture model of decision-making under risk, allowing for unobserved heterogeneity in utility functions and limited consideration.

Decision Making

Attention Overload

no code implementations • 20 Oct 2021 • Matias D. Cattaneo, Paul Cheung, Xinwei Ma, Yusufcan Masatlioglu

We introduce an Attention Overload Model that captures the idea that alternatives compete for the decision maker's attention, and hence the attention that each alternative receives decreases as the choice problem becomes larger.

Simple Local Polynomial Density Estimators

2 code implementations • 28 Nov 2018 • Matias D. Cattaneo, Michael Jansson, Xinwei Ma

This paper introduces an intuitive and easy-to-implement nonparametric density estimator based on local polynomial techniques.

regression