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Revealed Preference with Stochastic Demand Correspondence

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  • Dasgupta Indraneel

    (Durham University)

  • Pattanaik P. K

    (University of California, Riverside)

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We extend the revealed preference theory of consumer's behavior originating in Samuelson's Weak Axiom of Revealed Preference to simultaneously permit both non-singleton choice sets and random choice. We provide a consistency postulate for demand behavior when such behavior is represented in terms of a stochastic demand correspondence. When the consumer spends his or her entire wealth, our rationality postulate is equivalent to a condition we term "stochastic substitutability." This equivalence generates as special cases in most of the basic results regarding consumers' demand behavior in the existing revealed preference literature.

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  • Dasgupta Indraneel & Pattanaik P. K, 2010. "Revealed Preference with Stochastic Demand Correspondence," The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, De Gruyter, vol. 10(1), pages 1-21, August.
  • Handle: RePEc:bpj:bejtec:v:10:y:2010:i:1:n:35
    DOI: 10.2202/1935-1704.1654
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