revealed preferences

English

Noun

revealed preferences

1. plural of revealed preference
   • 1996, Eric G. Falkenstein (March 1996), "Preferences for stock characteristics as revealed by mutual fund portfolio holdings", Journal of Finance, 51(1):111–135, doi:10.1111/j.1540-6261.1996.tb05204.x, page 111:

     This paper documents the revealed preferences of U.S. open-end mutual funds for various stock characteristics.

   • 2005, Michael Mandler (February 2005), "Incomplete preferences and rational intransitivity of choice", Games and Economic Behavior, 50(2):255–277, doi:10.1016/j.geb.2004.02.007, page 255:

     We show that if psychological preferences are incomplete then revealed preferences can be intransitive without exposing agents to manipulations or violating outcome rationality.

   • 2007, Brian A. Jacob and Lars Lefgren (1 November 2007), "What do parents value in education? An empirical investigation of parents’ revealed preferences for teachers", Quarterly Journal of Economics, 122(4):1603–1637, doi:10.1162/qjec.2007.122.4.1603, page 1603:

     This paper examines revealed preferences of parents for their children's education, using parent requests for individual elementary school teachers and information on teacher attributes, including principal reports of teacher characteristics that are typically unobservable.