Antonio Rangel

Using Neural Measures of Economic Value to Solve the Public Goods Free-Rider Problem (2009)

Krajbich, Ian, Camerer, Colin, Ledyard, John, Rangel, Antonio

Every social group needs to decide when to provide public goods and how to allocate the costs among its members. Ideally, this decision would maximize the group’s net benefits while also ensuring...

Neural computations underlying action-based decision making in the human brain (2009)

Wunderlich, Klaus, Rangel, Antonio, O'Doherty, John P.

Action-based decision making involves choices between different physical actions to obtain rewards. To make such decisions the brain needs to assign a value to each action and then compare them to...

Evidence for a Common Representation of Decision Values for Dissimilar Goods in Human Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex (2009)

Chib, Vikram S., Rangel, Antonio, Shimojo, Shinsuke, O'Doherty, John P.

To make economic choices between goods, the brain needs to compute representations of their values. A great deal of research has been performed to determine the neural correlates of value...

Self-control in decision-making involves modulation of the vmPFC valuation system (2009)

Hare, Todd A., Camerer, Colin F., Rangel, Antonio

Every day, individuals make dozens of choices between an alternative with higher overall value and a more tempting but ultimately inferior option. Optimal decision-making requires self-control. We...

The medial prefrontal cortex exhibits money illusion (2009)

Weber, Bernd, Rangel, Antonio, Wibral, Matthias, Falk, Armin

Behavioral economists have proposed that money illusion, which is a deviation from rationality in which individuals engage in nominal evaluation, can explain a wide range of important economic and...

Beyond revealed preference: choice-theoretic foundations for behavioral welfare economics (2009)

Bernheim, B. Douglas, Rangel, Antonio

We propose a broad generalization of standard choice-theoretic welfare economics that encompasses a wide variety of nonstandard behavioral models. Our approach exploits the coherent aspects of choice...

2005, «From Neuroscience to Public Policy : A New Economic View of Addiction (2008)

B. Douglas Bernheim, Antonio Rangel

A growing consensus in neuroscience regarding how addictive substances affect the brain supports the view that the consumption of addictive substances is sometimes rational, and sometimes a...

A neural basis for the effect of candidate appearance on election outcomes (2008)

Spezio, Michael L., Rangel, Antonio, Alvarez, R. Michael, O'Doherty, John P., Mattes, Kyle, Todorov, Alexander, ...

Election outcomes correlate with judgments based on a candidate’s visual appearance, suggesting that the attributions viewers make based on appearance, so-called thin-slice judgments, influence...

A neural basis for the effect of candidate appearance on election outcomes (2008)

Spezio, Michael L., Rangel, Antonio, Alvarez, Ramon Michael, O’Doherty, John P., Mattes, Kyle, Todorov, Alexander, ...

Election outcomes correlate with judgments based on a candidates visual appearance, suggesting that the attributions viewers make based on appearance, so-called thin-slice judgments, influence...

Consciousness meets neuroeconomics: what is the value of stimulus awareness in decision making? (2008)

Rangel, Antonio

An important question in neuroeconomics is how consciousness affects decision making. In this issue of Neuron, Pessiglione et al. take an initial step toward addressing this question by showing that...

A framework for studying the neurobiology of value-based decision making (2008)

Rangel, Antonio, Camerer, Colin, Read Montague, P.

Neuroeconomics is the study of the neurobiological and computational basis of value-based decision making. Its goal is to provide a biologically based account of human behaviour that can be applied...

Biasing simple choices by manipulating relative visual attention (2008)

Armel, K. Carrie, Beaumel, Aurelie, Rangel, Antonio

Several decision-making models predict that it should be possible to affect real binary choices by manipulating the relative amount of visual attention that decision-makers pay to the two...

The Neural Mechanisms Underlying the Influence of Pavlovian Cues on Human Decision Making (2008)

Bray, Singe, Rangel, Antonio, Shimojo, Shinsuke, Balleine, Bernard, O'Doherty, John P.

In outcome-specific transfer, pavlovian cues that are predictive of specific outcomes bias action choice toward actions associated with those outcomes. This transfer occurs despite no explicit...

Dissociating the Role of the Orbitofrontal Cortex and the Striatum in the Computation of Goal Values and Prediction Errors (2008)

Hare, Todd A., O'Doherty, John P., Camerer, Colin F., Schultz, Wolfram, Rangel, Antonio

To make sound economic decisions, the brain needs to compute several different value-related signals. These include goal values that measure the predicted reward that results from the outcome...

The Neural Mechanisms Underlying the Influence of Pavlovian Cues on Human Decision Making (2008)

Bray, Signe, Rangel, Antonio, Shimojo, Shinsuke, Balleine, Bernard, O'Doherty, John P.

In outcome-specific transfer, pavlovian cues that are predictive of specific outcomes bias action choice toward actions associated with those outcomes. This transfer occurs despite no explicit...

The impact of computation time and experience on decision values (2008)

Armel, K. Carrie, Rangel, Antonio

Most economists and neuroeconomists believe that individuals make choices first by assigning values to objects and then by selecting the option with the highest value, perhaps with some noise...

Thermal maturity history and implications for hydrocarbon exploration in the Catatumbo Basin, Colombia (2008)

Antonio Rangel, Roberto Hernández

Thermal maturity history and implications for hydrocarbon exploration in the Catatumbo Basin, Colombia

Budget Windows, Sunsets, and Fiscal Control (2008)

Dhammika Dharmapala, Søren Bo Nielsen, Antonio Rangel, Alan J. Auerbach, Alan J. Auerbach, Jel Nos H

Copenhagen, Lund University, and the Bank of Italy for helpful discussions and comments on an earlier draft, and to the Robert D. Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance for financial support....

Marketing actions can modulate neural representations of experienced pleasantness (2008)

Plassman, Hilke, O'Doherty, John P., Shiv, Baba, Rangel, Antonio

Despite the importance and pervasiveness of marketing, almost nothing is known about the neural mechanisms through which it affects decisions made by individuals. We propose that marketing actions,...

Biasing simple choices by manipulating relative visual attention, (2008)

K. Carrie Armel, Aurelie Beaumel, Antonio Rangel

Several decision-making models predict that it should be possible to affect real binary choices by manipulating the relative amount of visual attention that decision-makers pay to the two...

A neural basis for the effect of candidate appearance on election outcomes (2008)

Spezio, Michael L., Rangel, Antonio, Alvarez, Ramon Michael, O’Doherty, John P., Mattes, Kyle, Todorov, Alexander, ...

Election outcomes correlate with judgments based on a candidate's visual appearance, suggesting that the attributions viewers make based on appearance, so-called thin-slice judgments, influence...

Toward Choice-Theoretic Foundations for Behavioral Welfare Economics (2007)

Bernheim, B. Douglas, Rangel, Antonio

Interest in behavioral economics has grown in recent years, stimulated largely by accumulating evidence that the standard model of consumer decision making provides an inadequate, positive...

credit, including © notice, is given to the source. Passive Decisions and Potent Defaults (2003)

James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, Andrew Metrick, Jim Mcghee, ...

and Proceedings). We thank Hewitt Associates for their help in providing the data. We are particularly

Discussion of "Can Market and Voting Institutions Generate Optimal Intergenerational Risk Sharing?" by Antonio Rangel and Richard Zeckhauser (1999)

Antonio Rangel, Richard Zeckhauser, Thomas J. Sargent

This paper takes up an important issue from an interchange among Muench (1977), Lucas (1977), and Peled (1982): how to compare consumption allocations in an overlapping generations economy. Rangel...

Growth: With or Without Scale Effects? (1999)

Charles Jones The, Gene Grossman, Chol-won Li, Pietro Peretto, Antonio Rangel, Peter Howitt

this paper considerably. The National Science Foundation (SBR-9510916) provided financial support

Intergenerational goods / (1998)

Rangel, Antonio.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Harvard University, 1998.

Entamoeba histolytica: fecal antigen capture immunoassay for the diagnosis of enteric amebiasis by a monoclonal antibody (1996)

Urdaneta,Haydeé, Rangel,Antonio, Martins,Maria Sonia, Muñoz,Jose Francisco, Hernández M,Manuel

Amebiasis continues to be of epidemiological importance in underdeveloped countries. Clinical diagnosis and epidemiological setting in a region are based on the fecal microscopic identification of...

Prevalencia de la hepatitis C en insuficientes renales crónicos hemodializados y no hemodializados / José Angel Cova (1994)

Cova Salaya, José Angel;, Rangel, Antonio

Mecanografiado Tesis (Especialización)-- Universidad de Los Andes, Facultad de Medicina, Postgrado en Medicina Interna, Mérida, 1994 Incluye bibliografía

Avaliação do teste de imunofluorescência indireta para diagnóstico da filariose bancroftiana usando a microfilária de W. bancrofti como antígeno, em Recife-PE, Brasil (1991)

Dreyer,Gerusa, Andrade,Luiz, Espírito Santo,Marlene, Medeiros,Zulma, Moura,Isolda, Tenório,Jocelene, ...

Analisou-se o teste de imunofluorescência indireta com microfilárias de W. bancrofti tratadas pela papaína, como antígeno, amplamente utilizado em Recife para o imunodiagnóstico da filariose...

Addiction and Cue-Triggered Decision Processes

B. Douglas Bernheim, Antonio Rangel

We propose a model of addiction based on three premises: (i) use among addicts is frequently a mistake; (ii) experience sensitizes an individual to environmental cues that trigger mistaken usage;...

How to Protect Future Generations Using Tax-Base Restrictions

Antonio Rangel

This paper studies how to protect future generations from expropriation and to induce optimal investment in intergenerational public goods (IPGs), by introducing constitutional restrictions on the...

Behavioral Public Economics: Welfare and Policy Analysis with Non-Standard Decision-Makers

B. Douglas Bernheim, Antonio Rangel

This paper has two goals. First, we discuss several emerging approaches to applied welfare analysis under non-standard ("behavioral") assumptions concerning consumer choice. This provides a...

The Power of the Last Word in Legislative Policy Making

B. Douglas Bernheim, Antonio Rangel, Luis Rayo

We examine legislative policy making in institutions with two empirically relevant features: agenda setting occurs in real time and the default policy evolves. We demonstrate that these institutions...

Forward and Backward Intergenerational Goods: Why Is Social Security Good for the Environment?

Antonio Rangel

This paper studies the ability of nonmarket institutions to invest optimally in forward intergenerational goods (FIGs), such as education and the environment, when agents are selfish or exhibit...

Adjusting to a New Technology: Experience and Training.

Helpman, Elhanan, Rangel, Antonio

How does the economy react to the arrival of a new major technology? The existing literature on general-purpose technologies (GPTs) has studied the role that mechanisms like secondary innovations,...

Experiments Testing Multiobject Allocation Mechanisms

John O. Ledyard, David Porter, Antonio Rangel

This paper reports the results of over 130 auctions conducted under controlled conditions to examine the robustness of several auction mechanisms to allocate multiple objects. The simultaneous...

A Graphical Analysis of Some Basic Results in Social Choice

Estelle Cantillon, Antonio Rangel

We use a simple graphical approach to represent Social Welfare Functions that satisfy Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives and Anonymity. This approach allows us to provide simple and illustrative...

Adjusting to a New Technology: Experience and Training

Helpman, Elhanan, Rangel, Antonio

In this paper we study how aggregate output responds to the arrival of a new General Purpose Technology (GPT) by looking at adjustment mechanisms that operate through labour markets. We show that...

A graphical analysis of some basic results in social choice

Estelle Cantillon, Antonio Rangel

We use a simple graphical approach to represent Social Welfare Functions that satisfy Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives and Anonymity. This approach allows us to provide simple and illustrative...

Marketing actions can modulate neural representations of experienced pleasantness

Plassmann, Hilke, O'Doherty, John, Shiv, Baba, Rangel, Antonio

Despite the importance and pervasiveness of marketing, almost nothing is known about the neural mechanisms through which it affects decisions made by individuals. We propose that marketing actions,...

Biasing simple choices by manipulating relative visual attention,

K. Carrie Armel, Aurelie Beaumel, Antonio Rangel

Several decision-making models predict that it should be possible to affect real binary choices by manipulating the relative amount of visual attention that decision-makers pay to the two...

Beyond Revealed Preference: Choice Theoretic Foundations for Behavioral Welfare Economics

B. Douglas Bernheim, Antonio Rangel

We propose a broad generalization of standard choice-theoretic welfare economics that encompasses a wide variety of non-standard behavioral models. Our approach exploits the coherent aspects of...

Adjusting to a New Technology: Experience and Training

Elhanan Helpman, Antonio Rangel

In this paper we study how aggregate output responds to the arrival of a new General Purpose Technology (GPT) by looking at adjustment mechanisms that operate through labor markets. We show that...

Can Market and Voting Institutions Generate Optimal Intergenerational Risk Sharing?

Antonio Rangel, Richard Zeckhauser

Are market and voting institutions capable of producing optimal intergenerational risk-sharing? To study this question, we consider a simple endowment economy with uncertainty and overlapping...

Forward and Backward Intergenerational Goods: A Theory of Intergenerational Exchange

Antonio Rangel

This paper develops a theory of intergenerational exchange for generations that are either selfish or have non-dynastic altruism. The main building blocks of the theory are forward and backward...

Intergenerational Fiscal Constitutions: How to Protect Future Generations Using Land Taxes and Federalism

John P. Conley, Antonio Rangel

This paper studies how to design a fiscal constitution that, by capitalizing intergenerational spillovers into land values, is able to protect future generations from expropriation and to generate...

Democratic Policy Making with Real-Time Agenda Setting: Part 1

B. Douglas Bernheim, Antonio Rangel, Luis Rayo

We examine democratic policy-making in a simple institution with real-time agenda setting. Individuals are recognized sequentially. Once recognized, an individual makes a proposal, which is...

How to Protect Future Generations Using Tax Base Restrictions

Antonio Rangel

This paper studies constitutional restrictions on the tax base that protect future generations from expropriation and improve the optimality of investment in Intergenerational Public Goods (IPGs)....

Addiction and Cue-Conditioned Cognitive Processes

B. Douglas Bernheim, Antonio Rangel

We propose an economic theory of addiction based on the premise that cognitive mechanisms such as attention affect behavior independently of preferences. We argue that the theory is consistent with...

A Graphical Analysis of Some Basic Results in Social Choice

Estelle Cantillon, Antonio Rangel

We use a simple graphical approach to represent Social Welfare Functions that satisfy Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives and Anonymity. This approach allows us to provide simple and illustrative...

Forward and Backward Intergenerational Goods: A Theory of Intergenerational Exchange

Antonio Rangel

December 1999 This papers develops a theory of intergenerational exchange for generations that are either selfish or have non-dynastic altruism. The main building blocks of the theory are forward...

Adjusting to a New Technology: Experience and Training

Elhanan Helpman, Antonio Rangel

December 1998 How does the economy react to the arrival of a new major technology? The existing literature on General Purpose Technologies (GPTs) has studied the role that mechanisms like secondary...

Can Market and Voting Institutions Generate Optimal Intergenerational Risk Sharing?

Antonio Rangel, Richard Zeckhauser

January 14, 1999 Are market and voting institutions capable of producing optimal intergenerational risk-sharing? To study this question we consider a simple endowment economy with uncertainty and...

Beyond Revealed Preference: Choice-Theoretic Foundations for Behavioral Welfare Economics-super-*

B. Douglas Bernheim, Antonio Rangel

We propose a broad generalization of standard choice-theoretic welfare economics that encompasses a wide variety of nonstandard behavioral models. Our approach exploits the coherent aspects of choice...

The medial prefrontal cortex exhibits money illusion

Weber, Bernd, Rangel, Antonio, Wibral, Matthias, Falk, Armin

Behavioral economists have proposed that money illusion, which is a deviation from rationality in which individuals engage in nominal evaluation, can explain a wide range of important economic and...