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Random consideration and choice: A case study of «default» options
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2018-11)A growing number of stochastic choice models include a “default” option for situations where the decision maker selects none of the feasible alternatives. While this is a welcome development, these models also present an empirical challenge - since the ... -
Rank Regressions, Wage Distributions and the Gender Gap
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 1996)In this paper, we model the interactions between the distribution of male and female wages under the assumption that any change in the wage distribution of women must be offset by an opposite change in the wage distribution of men. -
Rank Regressions, Wage Distributions and the Gender Gap
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 1996)In this paper, we model the interactions between the distribution of male and female wages under the assumption that any change in the wage distribution of women must be offset by an opposite change in the wage distribution of men. -
Ranking by rating
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2016-02)Each item in a given collection is characterized by a set of possible performances. A (ranking) method is a function that assigns an ordering of the items to every performance profile. Ranking by Rating consists in evaluating each item’s performance ... -
Ranking Sets of Objects
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2001)We provide a survey of the literature on ranking sets of objects. The interpretations of those set rankings include those employed in the theory of choice under complete uncertainty, rankings of opportunity sets, set rankings that appear in matching ... -
Rational Choice on Arbitrary Domains: A Comprehensive Treatment
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2005)The rationalizability of a choice function on arbitrary domains by means of a transitive relation has been analyzed thoroughly in the literature. Moreover, characterizations of various versions of consistent rationalizability have appeared in recent ... -
The Rationality of Revolution
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 1996)Did the recent transition to liberal democracy in Eastern Europe consitute revolutions? Here, game theory is used to structure an explanation of institutional change proposed by Harold Innis (1950). -
Rationality, External Norms and the Epistemic Value of Menus
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2008-06)Ever since Sen’s (1993; 1997) criticism on the notion of internal consistency or menu independence of choice, there exists a widespread perception that the standard revealed preference approach to the theory of rational choice has difficulties in coping ... -
Rationalizability of Choice Functions on General Domains without Full Transitivity
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2001)The rationalizability of a choice function by means of a transitive relation has been analyzed thoroughly in the literature. However, not much seems to be known when transitivity is weakened to quasi-transitivity or acyclicity. We describe the logical ... -
Reference Groups and Individual Deprivation
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2004)We provide an axiomatization of Yitzhaki’s index of individual deprivation. Our result differs from an earlier characterization due to Ebert and Moyes in the way the reference group of an individual is represented in the model. Ebert and Moyes require ... -
Regulation via the Polluter-Pays Principle
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2010-12-13)We consider the problem of regulating an economy with environmental pollution. We examine the distributional impact of the polluter-pays principle which requires that any agent compensates all other agents for the damages caused by his or her (pollution) ... -
Relative Egalitarianism and Related Criteria
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2009-02)We reconsider the problem of aggregating individual preference orderings into a single social ordering when alternatives are lotteries and individual preferences are of the von Neumann-Morgenstern type. Relative egalitarianism ranks alternatives by ... -
Relative Nash welfarism
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2017-09)Relative Nash welfarism is a solution to the problem of aggregating von Neumann-Morgenstern preferences over a set of lotteries. It ranks such lotteries according to the product of any collection of 0-normalized von Neumann-Morgenstern utilities they ... -
Relative Uncertainty and Additively Representable Set Rankings
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2004)This paper proposes a definition of relative uncertainty aversion for decision models under complete uncertainty. It is shown that, for a large class of decision rules characterized by a set of plausible axioms, the new criterion yields a complete ... -
Religion and Economic Growth: Was Weber Right?
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2001)Evidence of falling wages in Catholic cities and rising wages in Protestant cities between 1500 and 1750, during the spread of literacy in the vernacular, is inconsistent with most theoretical models of economic growth. In The Protestant Ethic, Weber ... -
Reported Job Satisfaction : What Does It Mean?
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 1997)By reporting his satisfaction with his job or any other experience, an individual does not communicate the number of utils that he feels. Instead, he expresses his posterior preference over available alternatives conditional on acquired knowledge of ... -
A Representation of Risk Measures
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2013-10)We provide a representation theorem for risk measures satisfying (i) monotonicity; (ii) positive homogeneity; and (iii) translation invariance. As a simple corollary to our theorem, we obtain the usual representation of coherent risk measures (i.e., ... -
A Representation Theorem for Domains with Discrete and Continuous Variables
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2001)This paper proves a new representation theorem for domains with both discrete and continuous variables. The result generalizes Debreu's well-known representation theorem on connected domains. A strengthening of the standard continuity axiom is used in ... -
Resource egalitarianism with a dash of efficiency
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Resource-Monotonicity for House Allocation Problems
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2003)We study a simple model of assigning indivisible objects (e.g., houses, jobs, offices, etc.) to agents. Each agent receives at most one object and monetary compensations are not possible. We completely describe all rules satisfying efficiency and ...
