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Drazen Prelec

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A study by Prelec and Duncan Simester showed that people buying tickets to sporting events would be willing to pay significantly higher prices using credit cards than they would for cash purchases. Working in the area of
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based on paired questions in which one question of each pair asks about the respondent's own opinion and the other asks the respondent to estimate others' opinions.
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Loewenstein, George; Prelec, Drazen (1 May 1992). "Anomalies in Intertemporal Choice: Evidence and an Interpretation*".
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Prelec has made seminal contributions to theories of intertemporal choice, in particular the generalized theory of
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
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Prelec, Drazen (1998). "The Probability Weighting Function".
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Mijović-Prelec, Danica; Prelec, Draz̆en (27 January 2010).
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Yugoslavia
MIT Sloan School of Management
neuroeconomics
applied mathematics
Harvard University
experimental psychology
Richard Herrnstein
Duncan Luce
Harvard Society of Fellows
Guggenheim Fellow
hyperbolic discounting
Wisdom of the crowd
polls
Croatian
"Drazen Prelec distinguished Croatian expert for Neuroeconomics and professor at MIT, USA"


"Faculty & Research: Drazen Prelec"
"Drazen Prelec MIT Sloan"
"The crazy logic of a successful sale"
Business Week
the original
"The Harvard Game in a Market Setting"
doi
10.2307/2118482
JSTOR
2118482
S2CID
15959172
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