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Contextual Inference in Markets: On the Informational Content of Product Lines
"... Context can influence decisions. This malleability of choice is usually invoked as evidence that people do not maximize stable preference orderings. In a market equilibrium, however, context conveys payoff-relevant information to consumers. Consequently, these consumers rationally violate naïve form ..."
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to avoid extreme options has been credited with affecting decisions ranging from the demand for wine (Daniel L. McFadden 1999) to voting (Kaisa Herne 1997) and investing (Shlomo Benartzi and Richard H. Thaler 2002). Even more telling of the importance bestowed on the compromise effect is its didactic use