| dc.contributor |
Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa |
| dc.contributor.author |
Apesteguía, José |
| dc.contributor.author |
Ballester, Miguel Ángel |
| dc.date.accessioned |
2007-12-12T08:21:20Z |
| dc.date.available |
2007-12-12T08:21:20Z |
| dc.date.created |
2007-10 |
| dc.date.issued |
2007-12-12T08:21:20Z |
| dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2072/4823 |
| dc.format.extent |
297203 bytes |
| dc.format.mimetype |
application/pdf |
| dc.language.iso |
cat |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries |
Economics and Business Working Papers Series; 1056 |
| dc.rights |
Aquest document està subjecte a una llicència d'ús de Creative Commons, amb la qual es permet copiar, distribuir i comunicar públicament l'obra sempre que se'n citin l'autor original, la universitat i el departament i no se'n faci cap ús comercial ni obra derivada, tal com queda estipulat en la llicència d'ús (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/es/) |
| dc.subject.other |
Individual rationality, reference-dependence, rationalization, path independence, status-quo bias, addiction, habit formation, LeeX |
| dc.title |
A Theory of Reference-Dependent Behavior |
| dc.type |
info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper |
| dc.description.abstract |
Extensive field and experimental evidence in a variety of environments show that behavior depends on a reference point. This paper provides an axiomatic characterization of this dependence. We proceed by imposing gradually more structure on both choice correspondences and preference relations, requiring increasingly higher levels of rationality, and freeing the decision-maker from certain types of inconsistencies. The appropriate degree of behavioral structure will depend on the phenomenon that is to be modeled. Lastly, we provide two applications of our work: one to model the status-quo bias, and another to model addictive behavior. |