Search Results - subject:"Preference Reversals"

Hanley, Nick; Shogren, Jason - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 32 (2005) 1, pp. 13-24

) risk and preference reversals. We focus our discussion on the estimation of non-market environmental benefits and costs …

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Temptation, Welfare and Revealed Preference

Noor, Jawwad - Department of Economics, Boston University - 2005

. Motivated by the evidence on preference reversals, it is hypothesized that delayed temptations are easier to resist than …

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Choice and Normative Preference

Noor, Jawwad - Department of Economics, Boston University - 2005

what constitutes his welfare). Neverthe- less, the evidence on preference reversals suggests a means of recovering …

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Measurement of preferences and the economic importance of preference reversals

Gigliotti, Gary Anthony; Sopher, Barry - 1992

The empirical observation of preference reversals has been viewed as a fundamental challenge to economic theory, though … frequency of preference reversals decrease over time when subjects are given feedback concerning the monetary consequences to … them of committing a reversal. This reduction in preference reversals is a result of convergence over time of two measures …

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Goal-Based Construction of Preferences: Task Goals and the Prominence Effect

Fischer, Gregory W.; Carmon, Ziv; Ariely, Dan; … - In: Management Science 45 (1999) 8, pp. 1057-1075

Preferences inferred from choice are more likely to favor the alternative that is superior with respect to the prominent (most important or salient) attribute than are preferences inferred from matching (direct tradeoff) judgments. This prominence effect violates standard models of rational...

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Incentives and preference reversals: escape moves and community decisions in experimental economics

Tammi, Timo - In: Journal of Economic Methodology 6 (1999) 3, pp. 351-380

This article examines the debate on the influence of incentives on the occurrence of the so-called preference reversal phenomenon. Firstly, the participants' views on the issue and the main shifts in the debate are identified. Secondly, the statements of views and the shifts in the debate are...

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Measurement of Preferences and the Economic Importance of Preference Reversals

Gigliotti, Gary; Sopher, Barry - Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick - 1998

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