Article Dans Une Revue Quantitative Economics Année : 2025

How much do we learn? Measuring symmetric and asymmetric deviations from Bayesian updating through choices

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Belief‐updating biases hinder the correction of inaccurate beliefs and lead to suboptimal decisions. We complement Rabin and Schrag's (1999) portable extension of the Bayesian model by including conservatism in addition to confirmatory bias. Additionally, we show how to identify these two forms of biases from choices. In an experiment, we found that the subjects exhibited confirmatory bias by misreading 19% of the signals that contradicted their priors. They were also conservative and acted as if they missed 28% of the signals.

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hal-04911749 , version 1 (25-01-2025)

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Ilke Aydogan, Aurélien Baillon, Emmanuel Kemel, Chen Li. How much do we learn? Measuring symmetric and asymmetric deviations from Bayesian updating through choices. Quantitative Economics, 2025, 16 (1), 329-365 p. ⟨10.3982/qe2094⟩. ⟨hal-04911749⟩
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