New developments in revealed preference theory: decisions under risk, uncertainty, and intertemporal choice

Abstract

The chapter reviews recent developments in revealed preference theory. It discusses the testable implications of theories of choice that are germane to specific economic environments.The focus is on expected utility in risky environments; subjected expected utility and maxmin expected utility in the presence of uncertainty; and exponentially discounted utility for intertemporal choice. The testable implications of these theories for data on choice from classical linear budget sets are described, and shown to follow a common thread. The theories all imply an inverse relation between prices and quantities, with different qualifications depending on the functional forms in the theory under consideration.