Rationalization

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Cherepanov, Vadim; Feddersen, Timothy; Sandroni, Alvaro
• 署名单位: University of Pennsylvania; Northwestern University
• 刊物名称: THEORETICAL ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1933-6837
• DOI: 10.3982/TE970
• 发表日期: 2013-09-01
• 页码: 775-800
• 关键词: Rationalization; revealed preferences

摘要

In 1908, the Welsh neurologist and psychoanalyst Ernest Jones described human beings as rationalizers whose behavior is governed by the necessity of providing an explanation. We construct a formal and testable model of rationalization in which a decision maker selects her preferred alternative from among those that she can rationalize.