A challenging issue in modern choice theory is how to enrich the kind of data available to the researcher along with our understanding of the decision-making process. We propose an axiomatic characterization of the ‘satisficing’ heuristic under various informational structures. In particular...

We study a simple model in which a monopolist supplies a multi-attribute good and does not know whether the consumer is an expected-utility maximizer or a boundedly rational type that follows the satisficing heuristic proposed by Herbert Simon. We find that, unless the probability of the...