Anomalies

Thaler, R. H. (1988). Anomalies: The winner's curse. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2(1), 191-202.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1988

Volume

2

Issue

1

Pages

191-202

DOI registrant

American Economic Association

Link

https://doi.org/10.1257/jep.2.1.191 not authoritativefound

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information_theory

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Primes

• Winner's Curse
  • A bidder who overpays because they fell in love with a house is not suffering the winner's curse; a bidder who overpays because they failed to condition on the informational content of beating nine rivals is.

    This sourceSurvey establishing the winner's curse as a structural source of overpayment — the correlation between winning and overestimating — distinct from impatience or miscalculation, and making explicit that conditioning on the event "I won" changes the expected value of the prize.

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