Rational Inattention to Discrete Choices: A New Foundation for the Multinomial Logit Model
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Rational Inattention to Discrete Choices: A New Foundation for the Multinomial Logit Model†‡
Individuals must often choose among discrete actions with imperfect information about their payoffs. Before choosing, they have an opportunity to study the payoffs, but doing so is costly. This creates new choices such as the number of and types of questions to ask. We model these situations using the rational inattention approach to information frictions. We find that the decision maker’s opti...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Economic Review
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0002-8282
DOI: 10.1257/aer.20130047