6 papers
Belief Identification in Populations
Christopher P. Chambers, Yusufcan Masatlioglu, R. Emilio Muniz-Langle
We study the identification of belief distributions in a population of Bayesian agents from anonymous aggregate belief data. While a single Bayesian agent's full belief can be reco…
Decision Making under Dual-System Thinking
Yusufcan Masatlioglu, Tri Phu Vu
This paper introduces the Dual-System Thinking (DST) model, a decision-theoretic framework that integrates psychological dual-process theories into economic modeling. A single cogn…
Invariant Modeling for Joint Distributions
Christopher P. Chambers, Yusufcan Masatlioglu, Ruodu Wang
A common theme underlying many problems in statistics and economics involves the determination of a systematic method of selecting a joint distribution consistent with a specified…
Ordered Probabilistic Choice
Christopher P. Chambers, Yusufcan Masatlioglu, Kemal Yildiz
We introduce a novel perspective by linking ordered probabilistic choice to copula theory, a mathematical framework for modeling dependencies in multivariate distributions. Each re…
Revealed Social Networks
Christopher P. Chambers, Yusufcan Masatlioglu, Christopher Turansick
The linear-in-means model is the standard empirical model of peer effects. Using choice data and exogenous group variation, we first develop a revealed preference style test for th…
Frame-dependent Random Utility
Paul H. Y. Cheung, Yusufcan Masatlioglu
We explore the influence of framing on decision-making, where some products are framed (e.g., displayed, recommended, endorsed, or labeled). We introduce a novel choice function th…