Dynamic Random Choice
Theoretical Economics
2022-06-22 v2
Abstract
I study dynamic random utility with finite choice sets and exogenous total menu variation, which I refer to as stochastic utility (SU). First, I characterize SU when each choice set has three elements. Next, I prove several mathematical identities for joint, marginal, and conditional Block--Marschak sums, which I use to obtain two characterizations of SU when each choice set but the last has three elements. As a corollary under the same cardinality restrictions, I sharpen an axiom to obtain a characterization of SU with full support over preference tuples. I conclude by characterizing SU without cardinality restrictions. All of my results hold over an arbitrary finite discrete time horizon.
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@article{arxiv.2102.00143,
title = {Dynamic Random Choice},
author = {Ricky Li},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.00143},
year = {2022}
}
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26 pages