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There are many situations in which alternatives ranked by quality wish to be chosen and compete for the imperfect attention of a chooser by selecting their own salience. The chooser may be "tricked" into choosing more salient but inferior alternatives. We investigate when competitive forces...
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We propose a novel method to model an agent who is imperfectly attentive in the sense that she may consider only some of the alternatives available. Our methodology departs from the standard 'revealed preference' one: we make plausible assumptions on the values to the imperfectly attentive agent...
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This paper presents a rational expectations model of asset prices with rationally inattentive investors that, unlike previous papers, explains both the substantial amount of equity wealth invested domestically and the puzzling time series behavior of the home bias - an initial plateau before...
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Discrete Choice Experiments (DCEs) designed to estimate willingness-to-pay (WTP) values are very popular in health economics. With increased computation power and advanced simulation techniques, random-coefficient models have gained an increasing importance in applied work as they allow for...
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on the other players rationality is addressed within our multi-agent framework. We find that, if costs/payoffs act as …
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We present a new notion of cardinal revealed preference that exploits the expenditure information in classical consumer theory environments with finite data. We propose a new behavioral axiom, Acyclic Enticement (AE), that requires the acyclicity of the cardinal revealed-preference relation. AE...
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Given any observed demand behavior by means of a demand function, we quantify by how much it departs from rationality … correcting matrix that would yield a Slutsky matrix with its standard rationality properties (symmetry, singularity, and negative … semidefiniteness). A useful classification of departures from rationality is suggested as a result. Variants, examples, and …
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underlying Slutsky matrix norm (SMN) and some popular discrete revealed preference (RP) measures of departures from rationality …, such as the Afriat index. We show that testing rationality in the SMN aproach with finite data is equivalent to testing it … under the RP approach. We propose a way to "summarize" the departures from rationality in a systematic fashion in finite …
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Many decision models in marketing science and psychology assume that a consumer chooses by proceeding sequentially … through a checklist of desirable properties. These models are contrasted to the utility maximization model of rationality in …
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This paper studies optimal decision rules for a decision maker who can consult two experts in an environment without … environments with one expert. In order to derive optimal decision rules, we prove a constant-threat result that states that any out … property of an optimal decision rule is that it is simple and constant for a large set of experts' preferences and distribution …
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