D83 | Economic Research Southern Africa

JEL code: D83

Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief

Optimal Information Transmission

This paper addresses the issue of how a given piece of information ...

Wei Ma

Working Paper

A Life-Cycle Model with Ambiguous Survival Beliefs

On average, young people underestimate whereas old people overestim...

Max Groneck, Alexander Zimper, Alexander Ludwig

Working Paper

Biased Bayesian Learning with an Application to the Risk-Free Rate Puzzle

Based on the axiomatic framework of Choquet decision theory, we dev...

Alexander Zimper, Alexander Ludwig

Working Paper

Inflation Expectations of the Inattentive General Public

The majority of academic research on central bank communication has...

Monique Reid

Working Paper

Do Bayesians learn their way out of ambiguity?

In standard models of Bayesian learning agents reduce their uncerta...

Alexander Zimper

Working Paper

On attitude polarization under Bayesian learning with non-additive beliefs

Ample psychological evidence suggests that people’s learning behavi...

Alexander Ludwig, Alexander Zimper

Working Paper

Asset pricing in a Lucas ‘fruit-tree’ economy with non-additive beliefs

We study a Lucas (1978) “fruit-tree” economy under the ...

Alexander Zimper

Working Paper

A parsimonious model of subjective life expectancy

This paper develops a theoretical model for the formation of subjec...

Alexander Zimper, Alexander Ludwig

Working Paper

An epistemic model of an agent who does not reflect on reasoning processes

This paper introduces an epistemic model of a boundedly rational ag...

Alexander Zimper

Working Paper