Some References¶
Rational & Behavioural Revealed Preference Theory & Methods¶
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Empirical/Experimental Studies¶
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Syngjoo Choi, Shachar Kariv, Wieland Muller, and Dan Silverman. Who is (more) rational? American Economic Review, 104:1518–1550, 2014.
Miguel Costa-Gomes, Carlos Cueva, Georgios Gerasimou, and Matúš Tejiščák. Choice, deferral and consistency. Quantitative Economics, 13:1297–1318, 2022.
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Ian Crawford and Krishna Pendakur. How many types are there? Economic Journal, 123:77–95, 2013.
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Computational Methods & Tools¶
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M. Houtman and J. A. Maks. Determining all maximal data subsets consistent with revealed preference. Kwantitatieve Methoden, 19:89–104, 1985.
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Bart Smeulders, Frits C. R. Spieksma, Laurens Cherchye, and Bram De Rock. Goodness-of-fit measures for revealed preference tests: complexity results and algorithms. ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation, 2:3:1–3:16, 2014.
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