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标题：On path independent stochastic choice
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作者：David S. Ahn ; Federico Echenique ; Kota Saito 等
期刊名称：Theoretical Economics
印刷版ISSN：1555-7561
出版年度：2018
卷号：13
期号：1
页码：61-85
DOI：10.3982/TE2653
语种：English
出版社：Econometric Society
摘要：We investigate stochastic choice when only the average and not the entire distribution of choices is observable, focusing attention on the popular Luce model. Choice is path independent if it is recursive, in the sense that choosing from a menu can be broken up into choosing from smaller submenus. While an important property, path independence is known to be incompatible with continuous choice. The main result of our paper is that a natural modification of path independence, which we call partial path independence, is not only compatible with continuity, but ends up characterizing the ubiquitous Luce (or logit) rule.