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Two-Stage Boundedly Rational Choice Procedures: Theory and Experimental Evidence

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  • Manzini, Paola

    () (University of St. Andrews)

  • Mariotti, Marco

    () (University of St. Andrews)

Abstract

We study and test a class of boundedly rational models of decision making which rely on sequential eliminative heuristics. We formalize two sequential decision procedures, both inspired by plausible models popular among several psychologists and marketing scientists. However we follow a standard ‘revealed preference’ economic approach by fully characterizing these procedures by few, simple and testable conditions on observed choice. Then we test the models (as well as the standard utility maximization model) with experimental data. We find that the large majority of individuals behave in a way consistent with one of our procedures, and inconsistent with the utility maximization model.

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Paper provided by Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in its series IZA Discussion Papers with number 2341.

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Length: 69 pages
Date of creation: Sep 2006
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Publication status: published online as 'Categorize Then Choose: Boundedly Rational Choice and Welfare' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2012, {Early View]
Handle: RePEc:iza:izadps:dp2341

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  1. Manzini, Paola & Mariotti, Marco & Mittone, Luigi, 2006. "Choosing Monetary Sequences: Theory and Experimental Evidence," IZA Discussion Papers 2129, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
  2. Lombardi, Michele, 2009. "Reason-based choice correspondences," Mathematical Social Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 57(1), pages 58-66, January.
  3. Kfir Eliaz & Michael Richter & Ariel Rubinstein, 2011. "Choosing the two finalists," Economic Theory, Springer, vol. 46(2), pages 211-219, February.

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