Revealed preference and indifferent selection
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- dc.contributor.author Danan, Ericca
- dc.contributor.other Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa
- dc.date.accessioned 2017-07-26T12:07:51Z
- dc.date.available 2017-07-26T12:07:51Z
- dc.date.issued 2006-04-01
- dc.date.modified 2017-07-23T02:10:28Z
- dc.description.abstract 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 and generalized to a purely topological framework: references over an arbitrary topological space can be uniquely derived from observed behavior under the assumptions that they are continuous and nonsatiated and that a strictly preferred alternative is always chosen, and indifferent selection is then characterized by discontinuity in choice behavior. Two particular cases are then analyzed: monotonic preferences over a partially ordered set, and preferences representable by a continuous pseudo-utility function.
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- dc.identifier https://econ-papers.upf.edu/ca/paper.php?id=952
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/965
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.relation.ispartofseries Economics and Business Working Papers Series; 952
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- dc.subject.keyword revealed preference
- dc.subject.keyword indifference
- dc.subject.keyword choice behavior
- dc.subject.keyword continuity
- dc.subject.keyword nonsatiation
- dc.subject.keyword monotonicity
- dc.subject.keyword pseudo-utility
- dc.subject.keyword Behavioral and Experimental Economics
- dc.subject.keyword Microeconomics
- dc.title Revealed preference and indifferent selectionca
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