Abstract We run an experiment to elicit preferences over state-contingent timed payouts. analyze the data using a new revealed preference method (building on Nishimura, Ok, and Quah (2017)) that can test for consistency with utility functions increase given preorder. find correlation neutrality, property implied by discounted expected utility, is widely violated there is, instead, strong eviden...

Aptness, defined as how the vehicle is well able to cover the salient features of the tenor (e.g., oil is like liquid gold vs. a train is like a worm), is claimed to be an important factor in the preference for metaphors over similes, or vice versa. This study was an attempt to test for the supposed correlation between the perceived degree of aptness and a priori stylistic preference for metaph...

cabbage leaf miner scaptomyza flava (fallen) (l)iptera: drosophilidae) is a native and oligophagous leaf miner insect on cruciferous plants (brassicaceae). it occurs in many parts of the world and throughout khuzestan. the relationship between feeding and ovipositional preferences of insect, and host plant suitability on seven host plant species (cauliflower brassica oleracea var. botryds, ...

We consider an observer who makes a finite number of observations of an industry producing a homogeneous good, where each observation consists of the market price and firm-specific production quantities. We develop a revealed preference test (in the form of a linear program) for the hypothesis that the firms are playing a Cournot game, assuming that they have convex cost functions that do not c...

Baiou and Balinski (Math. Oper. Res., forthcoming) studied schedule matching where one determines the partnerships that form and how much time they spend together, under the assumption that each agent has a ranking on all potential partners. Here we study schedule matching under more general preferences that extend the substitutable preferences in Roth (Econometrica 52 (1984) 47) by an extensio...

We analyze preferences over finite decision problems in order to model decision-makers with “changing tastes”. We provide conditions on these preferences that identify the Strotz model of consistent planning. Building on an example by Peleg and Yaari (1973), we show that for problems with infinitely many choices, Strotz’s representation of preferences may not be well-defined. For that case, we ...

In classical revealed preference analysis we are given a sequence of linear prices (i.e., additive over goods) and an agent’s demand at each of the prices. The problem is to determine whether the observed demands are consistent with utility-maximizing behavior, and if so, recover a representation of the agent’s utility function. In this work, we consider a setting where an agent responds to non...