揭示的注意力

Revealed Attention

American Economic Review · 2012
被引 307
人大 A+FT50ABS 4*

中文导读

从观察到的行为中同时推断决策者的偏好和其注意到的备选方案,证明不指定选择程序就做福利判断会误导,并为有限注意力下最大化单一偏好关系提供了选择理论基础。

Abstract

The standard revealed preference argument relies on an implicit assumption that a decision maker considers all feasible alternatives. The marketing and psychology literatures, however, provide well-established evidence that consumers do not consider all brands in a given market before making a purchase (Limited Attention). In this paper, we illustrate how one can deduce both the decision maker's preference and the alternatives to which she pays attention and inattention from the observed behavior. We illustrate how seemingly compelling welfare judgments without specifying the underlying choice procedure are misleading. Further, we provide a choice theoretical foundation for maximizing a single preference relation under limited attention.

有限关注显示偏好选择理论福利判断