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From preferences to Cobb-Douglas utility
Voorneveld, Mark - 2008
We provide characterizations of preferences representable by a Cobb-Douglas utility function. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281260
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Outer measure and utility
Voorneveld, Mark; Weibull, Jörgen W. - 2008
In most economics textbooks there is a gap between the non-existence of utility functions and the existence of continuous utility functions, although upper semi-continuity is sufficient for many purposes. Starting from a simple constructive approach for countable domains and combining this with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281322
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Genetic influences on economic preferences
Cesarini, David; Dawes, Christopher T.; Johannesson, Magnus - 2007
experimentally elicited preferences for risk and giving. Using standard methods from behavior genetics, we find strong prima facie … evidence that these preferences are broadly heritable and our estimates suggest that genetic differences explain approximately … preferences, a source which has hitherto largely been neglected in the economics literature. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281464
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Do people care about context? Framing effects in dictator games
Dreber, Anna; Ellingsen, Tore; Johannesson, Magnus; … - 2011
labeling of strategies. Usually these studies cannot tell whether frames affect preferences or beliefs. In this Dictator game … which case the frame may only affect preferences. We find that behavior is insensitive to social framing. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286337
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Outer measure and utility
Voorneveld, Mark; Weibull, Jörgen W. - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2008
In most economics textbooks there is a gap between the non-existence of utility functions and the existence of continuous utility functions, although upper semi-continuity is sufficient for many purposes. Starting from a simple constructive approach for countable domains and combining this with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005207183
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Do People Care about Social Context? Framing Effects in Dictator Games
Dreber, Anna; Ellingsen, Tore; Johannesson, Magnus; … - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2011
labeling of strategies. Usually these studies cannot tell whether frames affect preferences or beliefs. In this Dictator game … which case the frame may only affect preferences. We find that behavior is insensitive to social framing. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323350
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Genetic Variation in Preferences for Giving and Risk-Taking
David, Cesarini; Dawes, Christopher T.; Johannesson, Magnus - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2007
experimentally elicited preferences for risk and giving. Using standard methods from behavior genetics, we find strong prima facie … evidence that these preferences are broadly heritable and our estimates suggest that genetic differences explain approximately … preferences, a source which has hitherto largely been neglected in the economics literature. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005190832
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From preferences to Cobb-Douglas utility
Voorneveld, Mark - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2008
We provide characterizations of preferences representable by a Cobb-Douglas utility function. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423890