seminar: Object construction in collective decisions

speaker: Luigi Marengo (Dipartimento di Business and Management , L.U.I.S.S., Roma)

abstract: Abstract: Economic models of decision making usually start with a problem of choice among exogenously given and “simple” alternatives. On the contrary, choice is often among objects that are constructed by individuals or institutions as complex bundles made up of many interdependent components. This pre-choice process of construction of the objects of choice is largely left unexplored in the literature. In the seminar I will present a model in which alternatives are bundles of interacting constituent elements and discuss how the power of constructing such objects can largely determine collective outcomes. Applications to social choice and to organizational decision making will be discussed.

timetable:
Thu 11 Mar, 15:30 - 17:30, Aula Dini
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