"Coherent Arbitrariness": Stable Demand Curves Without Stable Preferences

DOI10.1162/00335530360535153zbMath1074.91577OpenAlexW2044944116WikidataQ29541093 ScholiaQ29541093MaRDI QIDQ4418264

Dan Ariely, Drazen Prelec, George Loewenstein

Publication date: 2003

Published in: The Quarterly Journal of Economics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/07d796b53f62a1c0e607712716c51e9e72db7baa

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Consumer behavior, demand theory (91B42)

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