Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/122084 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 725
Publisher: 
Queen Mary University of London, School of Economics and Finance, London
Abstract: 
Using the techniques of revealed preference analysis, we study a two-stage model of choice behavior. In the first stage, the decision maker maximizes a menu-dependent binary relation encoding preferences that are imperfectly perceived. In the second, a menu-independent binary relation is maximized over the subset of alternatives that survive the first stage. This structure can support various interpretations, including those of salience effects, positive action, and surface characteristics. We characterize the model behaviorally both in ordinal form and in terms of the corresponding numerical representations.
Subjects: 
Bounded rationality
Choice function
Revealed preference
Salience
JEL: 
D01
D03
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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