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1. Introduction

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Verlag: Springer Singapore

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Abstract

Growing body of research calls into question the utility maximization paradigm. This chapter discusses various responses to this research and provides a brief overview of the rest of the book.

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Fußnoten
1
See Allais (1953), Edwards (1954).
 
2
See, for example, Fehr and Schmidt (1999).
 
3
See for example Basov and Bhatti (2013) and Chap. 7 of this book.
 
4
See, for example, Goeree (2008), Hauser and Wernerfelt (1990), Howard and Sheth (1969), Nedungadi (1990), Punj and Brookes (2001), Roberts and Lattin (1991), Roberts and Nedungadi (1995), Wright and Barbour (1977).
 
5
Refer to Basov, Blanckenberg and Gangadharan (2007) and Chap. 3 of this book for a detailed discussion of this perspective.
 
6
Indeed, if mistakes have sufficiently small support, only high type will sometimes behave as a low type, since only one incentive compatibility constraint is binding.
 
7
Contract is viewed as incomplete if it does not condition payments on all available information that would have been useful under the assumptions of standard preferences and full rationality. It differs from another definition of incompleteness found in the literature as not specifying actions in some states of the world. See Anderlini and Felli (1994), Hart and Moore (1999) for a defence of such a use of the term.
 
8
For a discussion of empirical evidence, see Basov et al. (2001).
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Introduction
verfasst von
Suren Basov
Copyright-Jahr
2016
Verlag
Springer Singapore
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1041-5_1

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