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optimal choice (or collection of choices) given this preference relation, there is another preference relation that satisfies … EUOL plus the Savage axioms, for which this choice is also optimal. -- ambiguity ; decision theory ; Knightian uncertainty …
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We develop a framework in which individuals' preferences coevolve with their abilities to deceive others about their preferences and intentions. Specifically, individuals are characterised by (i) a level of cognitive sophistication and (ii) a subjective utility function. Increased cognition is...
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Recent work highlights that cooperation in the one-shot Prisoner's dilemma (PD) is primarily driven by moral preferences for doing the right thing, rather than social preferences for equity or efficiency. By contrast, little is known on what motivates cooperation in the Stag-Hunt Game (SHG)....
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This paper highlights a previously unnoticed property of commonly-used discrete choice models, which is that they …
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Motivated by the literature on ``choice overload'', we study a boundedly rational agent whose choice behavior admits a … of the model, extending familiar characterizations of rational choice. We classify monotone threshold representations as … satisficing'' model as well as Fishburn (1975) and Luce's (1956) model of choice behavior generated by a semiorder. We …
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The economic concept of the second-best involves the idea that multiple simultaneous deviations from a hypothetical first-best optimum may be optimal once the first-best itself can no longer be achieved, since one distortion may partially compensate for another. Within an evolutionary framework,...
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, time preferences are elicited using incentivized choice experiments. The aggregate distributions of discount factors and …
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, which contradicts most theories of choice such as expected utility but is consistent with a theory of responsibility … aversion that implies a preference for randomness. A large data set on university applications in Germany shows a choice …
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Using the techniques of revealed preference analysis, we study a two-stage model of choice behavior. In the first stage …
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The goal of this paper is to examine stability in preferences using the Stigler-Becker state-dependent framework. Using a randomized intervention that changes the opportunity sets of individuals we construct a unique panel data from an artefactual field experiment and evaluate whether the change...
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