A million answers to twenty questions: choosing by checklist

DOI10.1016/j.jet.2011.11.012zbMath1258.91051OpenAlexW3121653343MaRDI QIDQ665450

Paola Manzini, Marco Mariotti, Michael Mandler

Publication date: 5 March 2012

Published in: Journal of Economic Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jet.2011.11.012

zbMATH Keywords

choice functionutility maximizationlexicographic utilitybounded rationality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Decision theory (91B06) Utility theory (91B16) Individual preferences (91B08) Rationality and learning in game theory (91A26)

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