通过模仿进行偏好选择

The Selection of Preferences Through Imitation

Review of Economic Studies · 1998
被引 29
人大 A+FT50ABS 4*

中文导读

建立了一个模型,其中一群代理人反复与自然博弈,其行为规则通过模仿过程随时间修正。对于二元决策,模仿会选择与SSB效用理论和后悔理论一致的偏好关系;对于三个及以上选项,长期趋势是选择SSB偏好下最优的选项,若无最优选项则模仿过程可能不收敛。

Abstract

The paper presents a model in which a population of agents repeatedly play games against nature; the rules of behaviour followed are revised over time through a process of imitation. For binary decisions, imitation selects rules consistent with a preference relation of the kind proposed by SSB utility theory and regret theory. In general, this preference relation need not satisfy either independence or transitivity; we state conditions on imitation necessary for it to do so. For decisions over three or more options, the long-run tendency is for options that are maximally preferred in terms of SSB preferences to be chosen. If no maximally preferred option exists, the process of imitation may not converge.

模仿偏好选择SSB效用理论后悔理论