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Colloquium, Fall 2005

Day: Thursday December 1st Time: 4:00pm Place: BH 401 Title: Modeling Consumer Behavior Speaker: Edoh Amiran, Western Washington University Abstract: Models of consumers' behavior are important in policy decisions, in measurements of economic conditions, and in understanding whether actions are consistent with certain motivations. This talk will explain the goals for consumer models (as they should be), give some examples from policy and measurement, discuss a few existing and proposed models, and show examples of what these models tell us about consistency of actions. To discuss measurement, some calculations will be considered, but the talk should be accessible to those who understand constrained optimization and are willing to expose themselves to thoughts about people's behavior. Cookies: In BH 150 at 3:30pm.