bounded rationality 1consumer theory 1money pump 1optimal transport 1revealed preference 1utility recovery 1
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econ.TH2026
Revealed preference with optimal transport: money pumps, bounded rationality, and preference recovery
Joshua Lanier, Matthew Polisson, John K. -H. Quah
The paper links consumer irrationality measured by money‑pump vulnerability to deviations from utility maximization, showing that the maximal pump amount equals the minimal overpay…
econ.GN2026
Ever since Ellsberg
Aluma Dembo, Shachar Kariv, Matthew Polisson +1
Ellsberg's famous paradox challenged Savage's subjective expected utility theory (EUT) -- which reduces uncertainty to risk -- by suggesting an aversion toward ambiguity. We provid…
econ.TH2026
Goodness-of-fit and utility estimation: what's possible and what's not
Yujian Chen, Joshua Lanier, John K. -H. Quah
A goodness-of-fit index measures the consistency of consumption data with a given model of utility-maximization. We show that for the class of well-behaved (i.e., continuous and in…