Similarity-based mistakes in choice |
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| Institution: | 1. ICEF, NRU Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation;2. Saïd Business School and St. Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, United Kingdom;1. EPEE, University of Evry, University Paris-Saclay, France;2. IPAG Business School, PSE, CNRS, TIMAS, APD, France;3. Montpellier Business School – Montpellier Research in Management, France |
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| Abstract: | We characterize the following choice procedure. The decision maker is endowed with two binary relations over alternatives, a preference and a similarity. In every choice problem she includes in her choice set all alternatives which are similar to the best feasible alternative. Hence she can, by mistake, choose an inferior option because it is similar to the best. We characterize this boundedly rational behavior by suitably weakening the rationalizability axiom of Arrow (1959). We also characterize a variation where the decision maker chooses alternatives on the basis of their similarities to attractive yet infeasible options. We show that similarity-based mistakes of either kind lead to cyclical behavior. Finally, we reinterpret our procedure as a method for choosing a bundle given a set of individual items, in which the decision maker combines the best feasible item with those that complement it. |
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| Keywords: | Bounded rationality Similarity Mistakes Cyclic choice |
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