This study investigates how subjective mortality expectations and heterogeneity in time and risk preferences affect the … cannot be explained by differences in preferences. In contrast, this study identifies a strong relationship between answers … to survey questions about time and risk preferences and consumption and saving behaviors. This paper uses data on …

We consider desires for flexibility in weekly hours by analyzing changes in work hours preferences using four years of … data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey. We control for work hours preferences in … hours preferences. Our findings reveal that, in general, women are more sensitive to life events than men. Women’s preferred …

As the majority of new products fail it is important to focus on the needs and preferences of the consumers in new … paper is: How to understand consumer needs and preferences in the context of new product development in order to improve the …

Dual scaling of a subjects-by-objects table of dominance data (preferences, paired comparisons and successive …

We present a restriction on the domain of individual preferences that is both necessary and sufficient for the … preferences be contractible. Contractibility admits a straightforward intuitive explanation, and is a generalisation of conditions …

preferences: the space of strictly quasiconcave preferences Psco, its subspace of smooth preferences Pssco, and a space P1 of … smooth (not necessarily convex) preferences with a unique interior critical point (a maximum). The results are proven using …

Rationality is a complex behavioral theory that can be parsed into statements about preferences, perceptions, and …