Consumer theory with bounded rational preferences

Gerasimou, Georgios (2009): Consumer theory with bounded rational preferences.

Abstract

The neoclassical consumer maximizes utility and makes choices by completely preordering the feasible alternatives and weighing when indifferent. The consumer studied in this paper chooses by weighing when indifferent and also when indecisive, without necessarily preordering the alternatives or exhausting her budget. Preferences therefore need not be complete, transitive or non-satiated but are assumed strictly convex and "adaptive". The latter axiom is new and parallels that of ambiguity aversion in choice under uncertainty.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: preferences: incomplete, intransitive, convex, adaptive; representation; demand.
• Subjects: D - Microeconomics > D0 - General > D03 - Behavioral Microeconomics: Underlying Principles; D - Microeconomics > D1 - Household Behavior and Family Economics > D11 - Consumer Economics: Theory; D - Microeconomics > D0 - General > D01 - Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles

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