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Dynamically Consistent Menu Preferences

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  • Youichiro Higashi

    (Faculty of Economics, Okayama University)

  • Kazuya Hyogo

    (Faculty of Economics, Ryukoku University)

  • Gil Riella

    (School of Public Policy and Government, Getulio Vargas Foundation)

Abstract

We provide a unified analysis of dynamically consistent menu preferences that may exhibit preference for flexibility, preference for commitment, or both. Our work generalizes prior results, which investigated this problem for an agent who always exhibits preference for flexibility. By using two types of consistency conditions, we characterize an agent with a subjective state space who reacts to information about her subjective states in a dynamically consistent way. We apply our reuslts to the multiple temptations and the anticipating regret models.

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  • Youichiro Higashi & Kazuya Hyogo & Gil Riella, 2020. "Dynamically Consistent Menu Preferences," KIER Working Papers 1047, Kyoto University, Institute of Economic Research.
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    Keywords

    Dynamic consistency; Preference for flexibility; Preference for commitment; Bayesian updating; Subjective state space;
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    JEL classification:

    • D11 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Theory
    • D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
    • D91 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making

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