 (F)Lexicographic shortlist methodEconomic Theory, 2018, vol. 65, issue 1, No 4, 79-97 Abstract: Abstract Standard rational choice relies on the assumption that a decision maker is certain about her preferences. The psychology literature, on the other hand, provides well-established evidence that consumers are often uncertain about the true value of alternatives. This is particularly so when alternatives have several attributes and focusing on different attributes shifts a decision maker’s ranking of alternatives. In this paper, we propose and behaviorally characterize a new model of boundedly rational choice that formalizes these insights from psychology into a choice procedure. Simply put, our approach introduces menu dependence into the idea of lexicographic preferences. We study some of its properties and highlight how this procedure exacerbates any welfare judgments. Keywords: Menu-dependent choice; Rational shortlist method; Violations of WARP; Boundedly rational choice; Lexicographic preferences (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:joecth:v:65:y:2018:i:1:d:10.1007_s00199-016-1006-z Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/s00199-016-1006-z Access Statistics for this article Economic Theory is currently edited by Nichoals Yanneils More articles in Economic Theory from Springer, Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET) Contact information at EDIRC. |
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