Uncertainty, Single Crossing Property, and Stochastic Choice Data

Tanay Raj Bhatt

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Abstract: In a typical model of private information and choice under uncertainty, a decision maker observes a signal, updates her prior beliefs using Bayes rule, and maximizes her expected utility. If the decision maker's utility function satisfies the single crossing property, and the information structure is ordered according to the monotone likelihood ratio, then the comparative statics exhibit monotonicity with respect to signals. We consider the restrictions placed by this model of signal processing on state conditional stochastic choice data. In particular, we show that this model rationalizes a state conditional stochastic choice dataset if and only if the dataset itself is ordered according to the monotone likelihood ratio.

Date: 2025-04
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