Behavioral Economics of Preferences, Choices, and Happiness

Part I. Attitude Toward Risk and Time

1. Risk and Time Preferences: Linking Experimental and Household Survey Data from Vietnam
Tomomi Tanaka, Colin F. Camerer, Quang Nguyen

2. Simultaneous Measurement of Time and Risk Preferences: Stated Preference Discrete Choice Modeling Analysis Depending on Smoking Behavior
Takanori Ida, Rei Goto

3. Time Discounting: Declining Impatience and Interval Effect
Yusuke Kinari, Fumio Ohtake, Yoshiro Tsutsui

4. Non-parametric Test of Time Consistency: Present Bias and Future Bias
Kan Takeuchi

5. Loss of Self-Control in Intertemporal Choice May Be Attributable to Logarithmic Time-Perception
Taiki Takahashi

6. Experiments on Risk Attitude: The Case of Chinese Students
Shunichiro Sasaki, Shiyu Xie, Fumio Ohtake, Jie Qin, Yoshiro Tsutsui

Part II. Addiction

7. Interdependency Among Addictive Behaviours and Time/Risk Preferences: Discrete Choice Model Analysis of Smoking, Drinking, and Gambling
Takanori Ida, Rei Goto

8. Discounting Delayed and Probabilistic Monetary Gains and Losses by Smokers of Cigarettes
Yu Ohmura, Taiki Takahashi, Nozomi Kitamura

9. Time Discounting and Smoking Behavior: Evidence from a Panel Survey
Myong-Il Kang, Shinsuke Ikeda

10. Smokers, Smoking Deprivation, and Time Discounting
Shoko Yamane, Hiroyasu Yoneda, Taiki Takahashi, Yoshio Kamijo, Yasuhiro Komori, Fumihiko Hiruma, Yoshiro Tsutsui

11. The Effects of the Social Norm on Cigarette Consumption: Evidence from Japan Using Panel Data
Eiji Yamamura

Part III. Health

12. Hyperbolic Discounting, the Sign Effect, and the Body Mass Index
Shinsuke Ikeda, Myong-Il Kang, Fumio Ohtake

13. Economic and Behavioral Factors in an Individual’s Decision to Take the Influenza Vaccination in Japan
Yoshiro Tsutsui, Uri Benzion, Shosh Shahrabani

Part IV. Social Preferences

14. Another Avenue for Anatomy of Income Comparisons: Evidence from Hypothetical Choice Experiments
Katsunori Yamada, Masayuki Sato

15. Social Capital, Household Income, and Preferences for Income Redistribution
Eiji Yamamura

Part V. Happiness and Well-Being

16. Koizumi Carried the Day: Did the Japanese Election Results Make People Happy and Unhappy?
Yoshiro Tsutsui, Miles Kimball, Fumio Ohtake

17. Asking About Changes in Happiness in a Daily Web Survey and Its Implication for the Easterlin Paradox
Yoshiro Tsutsui, Fumio Ohtake

18. Welfare States and the Redistribution of Happiness
Hiroshi Ono, Kristen Schultz Lee

Part VI. Decisions

19. Revealed Attention
Yusufcan Masatlioglu, Daisuke Nakajima, Erkut Y. Ozbay

20. Subjective Random Discounting and Intertemporal Choice
Youichiro Higashi, Kazuya Hyogo, Norio Takeoka

21. A Geometric Approach to Temptation
Koji Abe

Part VII. Biological Foundation

22. Prediction of Immediate and Future Rewards Differentially Recruits Cortico-Basal Ganglia Loops
Saori C. Tanaka, Kenji Doya, Go Okada, Kazutaka Ueda, Yasumasa Okamoto, Shigeto Yamawaki

23. Second-to-Fourth Digit Ratio and the Sporting Success of Sumo Wrestlers
Rie Tamiya, Sun Youn Lee, Fumio Ohtake

Part VIII. Investor Behavior

24. Investors’ Herding on the Tokyo Stock Exchange
Yoshio Iihara, Hideaki Kato, Toshifumi Tokunaga

25. The Characteristics of Online Investors
Konari Uchida

26. Can Margin Traders Predict Future Stock Returns in Japan?
Takehide Hirose, Hideaki Kiyoshi Kato, Marc Bremer

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