Showing 1 - 10 of 1,477
Why do we sanction norm violations? Despite near universal agreement on the role of sanctions for maintaining norms of cooperation, scholars hotly dispute whether individuals sanction based on a rational calculus or because of strong retributive instincts. In this paper we report on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011572279
just obeying and, hence, to be irrational. In this paper we offer a different approach which postulates rationality of all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008732419
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513283
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011285514
A decision maker (DM) makes choices from different sets of alternatives. The DM is initially fully ignorant of the payoff associated to each alternative, and learns these payoffs only after a large number of choices have been made. We show that, in the presence of an outside option once payoffs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011344408
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010241984
Is there a rational component in the decision to commit suicide? Economists have been trying to shed light on this question by studying whether suicide rates are related to contemporaneous conditions. This paper goes one step further: we test whether suicides are linked to forward-looking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010386011
This essay reviews new histories of the role of game theory and rational decision-making in shaping the social sciences, economics among them, in the post war period. The recent books "The World the Game Theorists Made" by Paul Erickson and "How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind" by Paul Erickson,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524189
the very idea of "rationality" are derived entities. Which of the primitive tale is chosen bears far-reaching consequences … away from rationality-cum-equilibrium interpretations and of focusing on the varying balances between self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011554090
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010472595