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We provide characterizations of preferences representable by a Cobb-Douglas utility function.
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approach for countable domains and combining this with basic measure theory, we obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for … the existence of upper semi-continuous utility functions on a wide class of domains. Although links between utility theory … and measure theory have been pointed out before, to the best of our knowledge this is the first time that the present …
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establishedeconomic theory. We incorporate this model in a model forpurchase behavior. Our consumption specification, which isderived from …
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We propose a consistent utility-based framework to jointly explain a household's decisions on purchase incidence, brand choice and purchase quantity. The approach differs from other approaches, currently available in the literature, as it is able to take into account consumption dynamics. In the...
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probability weighting using rank dependent utility theory. The fundamental difference with the standard scheduling model based on …
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Utility theory suggests that foreseeable risk should increase the compensation for work. This paper expands on this … notion: on basis of utility theory, people should care not only about risk but also about the skewness in the distribution of …
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Revealed Preference offers nonparametric tests for whether consumption observations can be rationalized by a utility function. If a consumer is inconsistent with GARP, we might need a measure for the severity of inconsistency. One widely used measure is the Afriat efficiency index (AEI). We...
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We prove that a preference relation which is continuous on every straight line has a utility representation if its domain is a convex subset of a finite dimensional vector space. Our condition on the domain of a preference relation is stronger than Eilenberg (1941) and Debreu (1959, 1964), but...
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paper we argue that practicality is not the only feature that can be addressed by means of stochastic choice theory. This … theory also offers a powerful framework for developing a more realistic model for labor supply choices, founded on …
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In the conventional QALY model, people's preferences are assumed to satisfy utility independence. When health varies over time, utility independence implies that the value attached to a health state is independent of the health state that arise before or after it. In this paper we set out to...
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