{"title":"Dynamically consistent menu preferences","authors":"Youichiro Higashi, Kazuya Hyogo, Gil Riella","doi":"10.1007/s00199-024-01593-6","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>We provide a unified analysis of dynamically consistent menu preferences in which an agent may exhibit a preference for flexibility, a preference for commitment, or both. Our work generalizes prior results, which investigated this problem for an agent who always exhibits preference for flexibility. By using two types of consistency conditions, we characterize an agent with a subjective state space who reacts to information about her subjective states in a dynamically consistent way. We apply our results to the uncertain strength of temptation and the anticipating regret representations, and characterize a dynamically consistent updating of the no-uncertainty representation.</p>","PeriodicalId":47982,"journal":{"name":"Economic Theory","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2000,"publicationDate":"2024-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Economic Theory","FirstCategoryId":"96","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00199-024-01593-6","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"ECONOMICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We provide a unified analysis of dynamically consistent menu preferences in which an agent may exhibit a preference for flexibility, a preference for commitment, or both. Our work generalizes prior results, which investigated this problem for an agent who always exhibits preference for flexibility. By using two types of consistency conditions, we characterize an agent with a subjective state space who reacts to information about her subjective states in a dynamically consistent way. We apply our results to the uncertain strength of temptation and the anticipating regret representations, and characterize a dynamically consistent updating of the no-uncertainty representation.
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