Phorced to Phish: Benefits of a Phishing Equilibrium
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A salesman calls up to offer you a “much” better phone plan. Before you know, you have changed to this new plan, which not only exceeds your needs, but also “procures” a six-month free subscription to an online music service. You needed neither and pay more: you have just been “phished” as Akerlof and Shiller would say in their recent book Phishing for Phools. Furthermore, their phishing equilibrium dictates that if your company does not phish others will, so you phish to survive. The purpose of this paper is to present a formal analysis of phishing and phishing equilibria with surprising potential benefits to consumers rather than scamsters.
Original language | English |
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Article number | RBF-07-2016-0045 |
Journal | Review of Behavioral Finance |
Volume | 10 |
Issue number | 2 |
Pages (from-to) | 183-191 |
Number of pages | 9 |
ISSN | 1940-5979 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 14 Jun 2018 |
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