Strategic Diffusion of Information and Preference Manipulation

  1. Di Caprio, Debora 2
  2. Santos-Arteaga, Francisco J. 1
  1. 1 Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
  2. 2 York University (Canadá)
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    York University (Canadá)

    Toronto, Canadá

    ROR https://ror.org/05fq50484

Revista:
International Journal of Strategic Decision Sciences

ISSN: 1947-8569,  1947-8577

Año de publicación: 2011

Volumen: 2

Número: 2

Páginas: 1-19

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.4018/IJSDS.2011040101 GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso abierto editor

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Resumen

The current paper is aimed at bridging the existing gap between the empirical consumer choice literature and the theoretical structures built to account for information manipulation between a sender and a decision maker. We define a theoretical structure that allows for the analysis of preference manipulation in multiattribute environments via information multifunctions when the information transmitted is verifiable. We provide a series of examples that illustrate numerically the behaviour and validity of this theoretical structure. As a concrete application of our theoretical framework we show how it is possible for an information sender to induce any predetermined preference relation on a decision maker, and, in particular, how lexicographic preferences can be induced starting from non-lexicographic additive ones.

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