To examine the consequences of allowing individual to violate full rationality in collective decision making, this article discusses the possibility of aggregating quasi-transitive preferences in the Arrovian framework. Quasi-transitive valued aggregating functions are discussed and...

ABSTRACT. This article studies choice behavior under two types of salience effect: bottom-up stimulus-driven and top-down objective-driven salience. We incorporate both types of salience effect into a simple model that keeps the dichotomy of preference and menu. Applying the revealed preference...

Inspired by evidence from cognitive psychology, this article studies a simple choice model in which two systems jointly determine behavior: a fast, effortless, and gullible system 1 and a slow, effortful, and deliberate system 2. By incorporating both sources of "irrational" behavior, our model...

ABSTRACT. This article studies the behavioral implications of different roles of the reference alternative. We demarcate the boundaries of different reference-dependent choice models in terms of the distinct behavioral patterns these models induce. We provide characterizations of ownership...

A ranking over opportunity sets is justifiable if there exists a binary relation on the set of alternatives, such that one opportunity set is at least as good as the second, if and only if there exists at least one alternative in the first set which is at least as good as any alternative of the...

A multilateral currency union removes the intraregional exchange rates but not the union rate variability with the rest of the world. The intraregional exchange rate variability is thus latent. A two-step procedure is developed to measure the variability. The measured variables are used to model...

This paper describes a quarterly macroeconometric model of the economy of People's Republic of China. The model comprises household consumption, investment, government, trade, production, prices, money, and employment blocks. The equilibrium-correction form is used for all the behavioral...