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Consumer choice and revealed bounded rationality

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  • Paola Manzini
  • Marco Mariotti

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We study two boundedly rational procedures in consumer behavior. We show that these procedures can be detected by conditions on observable demand data of the same type as standard revealed preference axioms. This provides the basis for a non-parametric analysis of boundedly rational consumer behavior mirroring the classical one for utility maximization.
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  • Paola Manzini & Marco Mariotti, 2009. "Consumer choice and revealed bounded rationality," Economic Theory, Springer;Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET), vol. 41(3), pages 379-392, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:joecth:v:41:y:2009:i:3:p:379-392
    DOI: 10.1007/s00199-008-0389-x
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    Keywords

    Bounded rationality; Revealed preference; Consumer choice; D01;
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    JEL classification:

    • D1 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior
    • D11 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Theory

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