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Essays in behavioural economics

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The thesis consists of three stand-alone essays.

Defaults are influential, cheap to change, and therefore of great interest to policymakers. However, it is still unclear what explains their influence. Optimal Defaults and Uncertainty presents a model in which uncertainty contributes to default inertia: decision makers may be content to stick with the default and avoid the costs of learning their optimal decision. The socially optimal default policy I find differs significan...

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University of Oxford
Oxford college:
St Anne's College
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University of Oxford
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St Anne's College
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University of Oxford
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University College
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Wisson, J
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ES/J500112/1
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DPhil
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Doctoral
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University of Oxford
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English
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2017-02-15

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