Alphabetical list of glossary entries


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A Abstractness
Accessibility
Allais paradox
Allocation
Ambiguity
Anchoring and adjustment
Arbitrage
Attitude
Auction
Automaticity
Availability
Availability heuristic
B Base-rate fallacy
Bayes theorem
Bayes-Nash equilibrium
Behavioral economics
Behavioral finance
Belief
Between subjects design
Bounded rationality
C Call option
Category split effect
Centrality of typicality
Certainty effect
Cognition
Cognitive dissonance theory
Collar strategy
Competitive market equilibrium
Confounding variables
Consumption
Consumer demand
Consumer surplus
Control group
Control variable
Cooperative game
Covered short call
D Debiasing strategies
Decision strategies
Dependent variable
Dominant strategy
E Econometrics
Efficiency
Efficient capital markets
Elimination by aspects
Equal weight strategy
Equilibrium
Excess chance measures
Expected utility
Experiment
Experimental design
Experimental group
Externality
F First-price auction
Frame
Framing effect
G Game theory
H Habit
Hedge strategy
Heuristic
Hindsight bias
Hindsight bias: biased reconstruction
Hindsight bias: implications for further research
Hindsight bias: memory impairment
Hindsight bias: motivational explanations
Hindsight bias: practical relevance
Hindsight bias: response bias hyothesis
Hindsight bias: theoretical and empirical work
Hindsight bias: theoretical explanations
Household behavior
Hypothesis
I Identification
Incentive compatability
Income
Independent variable
Information
Information processing
Information rents
Intertemporal decision making
Institutionalism
L Lexicographic strategy
Liability of newness
Life-cycle hypothesis
Life-cycle hypothesis: literature
Lift
Linear separability
Logic of conversation
M Markets
Mediator variable
Microeconomics
Mixed strategy
Moderator variable
N Nash equilibrium
Natural sampling
Non-cooperative game
O Objectivity
Obsolescence
Options and hedging
Organizational learning
Organization studies: behavioral
Organization studies: cognitive
Overconfidence
P Pareto efficiency
Perfect Bayesian Nash equilibrium
Personality
Personality psychology
Permanent income hypothesis
Prices
Preferences
Problem representation
Procurement auction
Prospect theory
Prototype
Put option
R Rational behavior
Reference point
Reflection effect
Refinement
Reliability
Rents
Representation
Representativeness heuristic
Retention of central tendencies
Retirement decisions
Revelation mechanism
Revelation principle
Revenue equivalence
Reverse hindsight bias
Risk
Risk attitude
Risk aversion
S Satisficing strategy
Saving
Schema
Script
Second-price auction
Selection problem
Sequential equilibrium
Shortfall risk measures
Simpson paradox
Social cognition
Social psychology
Standard operating procedures
Strategy
Strategic equilibrium
Subgame perfect equilibrium
T Target return
Time preference
Type (of players)
U Uncertainty
Utility
Von Neuman-Morgenstern utility
V Validity
W Weighted attributes
Within subjects design

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June 17, 1999
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