revealed preference

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词形变化

revealed preferences 复数 revealed preferences

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A consumer preference as inferred from purchasing habits according to a theory invented by American economist Paul A. Samuelson.

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    Consumption theory in terms of revealed preference

    Thus, we observe the elderly’s revealed preference for health plan combinations with different features.

    Knowledge of expansion paths is shown to improve the power of nonparametric tests of revealed preference.

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    Samuelson's theory for inferring consumer preference from purchasing habits.

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    This paper reports on an attempt to apply revealed preference to the activities of the federal government to determine the weights it attached to various macro policy goals during the Eisenhower and Kennedy-Johnson administrations.

    We follow a revealed preference approach, and obtain two nested models of rational choice that allow phenomena like the status quo bias and the endowment effect, and that are applicable in any choice situation to which the standard (static) choice model applies.

    Most economists, however, are firmly rooted in the revealed preference paradigm to estimate the use values of environmental resources.

词源

Coined by American economist Paul Samuelson in the title of his 1948 paper expounding a theory for inferring consumer preference from purchasing habits. Samuelson first published a version of his theory ten years earlier, in a 1938 paper, but did not use the term revealed preference in the 1938 paper.

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