Revealed deliberate preference change

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Boissonnet, Niels; Ghersengorin, Alexis; Gleyze, Simon
• 署名单位: University of Munster; Paris School of Economics
• 刊物名称: GAMES AND ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0899-8256
• DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2023.08.015
• 发表日期: 2023
• 页码: 357-367
• 关键词: Revealed preferences; Preference change; deliberation; awareness

摘要

We propose a model of deliberate preference change that is identifiable, empirically testable, and founded on two normative principles. First, the decision maker (DM) must be able to justify her preference change by making attributes of the alternatives relevant or irrelevant to her choices. Second, DM's successive preference changes must result from consistent deliberations about which attributes to make relevant or irrelevant for her future choices. We show that these two principles are necessary and sufficient to rationalize preference changes by the maximization of a meta-preference. Finally, we illustrate how our model can generate the polarization of political preferences among ex-ante identical voters. (c) 2023 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.