“卢斯理性”的循环条件

Cycle conditions for “Luce rationality”

Journal of Mathematical Economics · 2025
被引 2 · 同刊同年前 6%
人大 A-ABS 3

中文导读

扩展并精炼了随机选择中“卢斯理性”(即存在卢斯或对数几率模型)的条件,提出了减少需检验循环方程数量的算法,并详细讨论了三种特殊情形。

Abstract

We extend and refine conditions for “Luce rationality” (i.e., the existence of a Luce – or logit – model) in the context of stochastic choice. When choice probabilities satisfy positivity , the cyclical independence (CI) condition of Ahumada and Ülkü (2018) and Echenique and Saito (2019) is necessary and sufficient for Luce rationality, even if choice is only observed for a restricted set of menus. We adapt results from the cycles approach (Rodrigues-Neto, 2009) to the common prior problem Harsanyi (1967-1968) to refine the CI condition, by reducing the number of cycle equations that need to be checked. A general algorithm is provided to identify a minimal sufficient set of equations. Three cases are discussed in detail: (i) when choice is only observed from binary menus, (ii) when all menus contain a common default; and (iii) when all menus contain an element from a common binary default set. Investigation of case (i) leads to a refinement of the famous product rule.

Luce理性随机选择循环独立性乘积法则