Archive for December 15th, 2013

Sell side bias, the "developer’s curse" … and ObamaCare.

December 15, 2013

President Obama is clearly perplexed on why the dogs aren’t eating the ObamaCare food.

He’s trying to give people a better “product” … and they just don’t get it.

What the heck is going on?

Well, shoving the roll-out snafus aside, much of the answer lies in good old behavioral economics.

Last week we talked “loss aversion” and the “endowment effect”.

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Today, let’s look at the “developers curse” …

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