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Choice with Limited Capacity

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  • Sen Geng

    (Department of Economics, Xiamen University)

  • Erkut Y. Ozbay

    (Department of Economics, University of Maryland)

Abstract

The number of alternatives in a choice problem may have an impact on the consid- eration of people with limited capacity: a decision maker considers all the available alternatives if the number of alternatives does not exceed her capacity; otherwise, she applies a rationale to reduce the number of alternatives to within her capacity. We provide the necessary and sufficient conditions for a choice function to be rationalizable by a shortlisting with limited capacity and recover the unobserved capacity from the observed choices, which turns out to be unique when choice reversals exist. Secondly, for the settings in which consideration sets are observable, we provide the necessary and sufficient conditions for a consideration function to be generated by the shortlisting with limited capacity procedure. Finally, we investigate a special case in which exactly the same number as the capacity of a decision maker are left when the elimination stage is triggered and show that only certain capacities are consistent with this special case.

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  • Sen Geng & Erkut Y. Ozbay, 2019. "Choice with Limited Capacity," GRU Working Paper Series GRU_2019_002, City University of Hong Kong, Department of Economics and Finance, Global Research Unit.
    • Handle: RePEc:cth:wpaper:gru_2019_002
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    Keywords

    consideration set; shortlisting; limited capacity;
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    JEL classification:

    • D11 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Theory
    • D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty

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