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Imagining the future: memory, simulation, and beliefs

How do people form beliefs about novel risks, with which they have little or no experience? Motivated by survey data on beliefs about COVID we collected in 2020, we build a model based on the psychology of selective memory. When a person thinks about an event, different experiences compete for retri...

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Main Authors: Bordalo, Pedro (Author) , Burro, Giovanni (Author) , Coffman, Katherine B. (Author) , Gennaioli, Nicola (Author) , Shleifer, Andrei (Author)
Format: Article (Journal)
Language:English
Published: 2025
In: The review of economic studies
Year: 2025, Volume: 92, Issue: 3, Pages: 1532-1563
ISSN:1467-937X
DOI:10.1093/restud/rdae070
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Author Notes:Pedro Bordalo, Giovanni Burro, Katherine Coffman, Nicola Gennaioli and Andrei Shleifer

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