Reference-dependent preferences: rationality, mechanism and welfare implications
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Reference-dependent preferences; status quo; rationality; welfare ordering; reference point shifting; implicit criteria; partial orders;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
- D00 - Microeconomics - - General - - - General
- A12 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DCM-2005-03-13 (Discrete Choice Models)
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