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This paper studies when stochastic choices are consistent with behavior from Bayesian expected utility maximization and information acquisition. This is a limited dataset since other characterization require state-dependent stochastic choice data. The conditions that characterize this behavior...
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This paper takes seriously that the quasilinear utility model is an approximation. We interpret approximation error as arising because individuals are satisficers. We investigate the consequences of individual satisficng for modelling aggregate demand, providing an approximate aggregation...
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This paper presents a cardinal measure of choice consistency for perturbed utility models. The measure of choice consistency is built on additive errors to the model. The additive errors are meaningful since the perturbed utility model is cardinal and utility differences are meaningful. We...
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This note studies necessary and sufficient conditions for consumer demand data to be generated by a symmetric utility function. We find that a dataset of prices and consumption decisions can be rationalized by a symmetric utility function if and only if the symmetrized dataset satisfies the...
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This paper provides partial identification results for latent utility models that satisfy an invariance property on unobservables such as exchangeability. We employ a simple revealed preference argument to "difference out'' unobservables and show that this gives identifying inequalities for...
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This paper studies aggregate complementarity without price or income variation. We show that for a class of utility functions, variation in non-price observables allows one to recover a measure of complementarity similar to Hicksian complementarity. In addition, the entire Slutsky matrix can be...
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We present a tractable generalization of quantal response equilibrium via non-expected utility preferences. In particular, we introduce concave perturbed utility games in which an individual has strategy-specific utility indices that depend on the outcome of the game and an additively separable...
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We present a tractable generalization of quantal response equilibrium via non-expected utility preferences. In particular, we introduce concave perturbed utility games in which an individual has strategy-specific utility indices that depend on the outcome of the game and an additively separable...
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