Common ratio and common consequence effects arise from true preferences
Carlos Alós-Ferrer,
Ernst Fehr,
Helga Fehr-Duda and
Michele Garagnani
No 459, ECON - Working Papers from Department of Economics - University of Zurich
Abstract:
Recent contributions suggest that the empirical evidence for the common ratio effect could be explained as noise instead of underlying preferences under “common assumptions.” We revisit this argument using a more general method which allows to unambiguously dis- tinguish noise from preferences nonparametrically and with less stringent assumptions. The results are independent of the assumed behavioral model or how noise affects choices. Ap- plying this method to new experimental data we show that there is a systematic preference for the common ratio and the common consequence effects which cannot be explained by noise.
JEL-codes: C91 D81 D91 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024-11
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cbe, nep-dcm, nep-exp and nep-upt
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:
Downloads: (external link)
https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/264661/1/econwp459.pdf (application/pdf)
Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.
Export reference: BibTeX
RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan)
HTML/Text
Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:zur:econwp:459
Access Statistics for this paper
More papers in ECON - Working Papers from Department of Economics - University of Zurich Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Severin Oswald ().