Revealed preference and indifferent selection
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Revealed preference and indifferent selection
It is shown that preferences can be constructed from observed choice behavior in a way that is robust to indifferent selection (i.e., the agent is indifferent between two alternatives but, nevertheless, is only observed selecting one of them). More precisely, a suggestion by Savage (1954) to reveal indifferent selection by considering small monetary perturbations of alternatives is formalized a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Mathematical Social Sciences
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0165-4896
DOI: 10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2006.12.005