Revealed Attention
Yusufcan Masatlioglu, Daisuke Nakajima, and Erkut Ozbay
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American Economic Review
2183-2205
August
2012
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Abstract
The standard revealed preference argument relies on an implicit assumption that a decision maker considers all feasible alternatives. The marketing and psychology literatures, however, provide well-established evidence that consumers do not consider all brands in a given market before making a purchase (Limited Attention). In this paper, we illustrate how one can deduce both the decision maker's preference and the alternatives to which she pays attention and inattention from the observed behavior.