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Single-Peaked Choice
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2006-09)
Single-peaked preferences have played an important role in the literature ever since they were used by Black (1948) to formulate a domain restriction that is sufficient for the exclusion of cycles according to the majority ...
Non-Deteriorating Choice without Full Transitivity
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2006-08)
Although the theory of greatest-element rationalizability and maximal-element rationalizability under general domains and without full transitivity of rationalizing relations is well-developed in the literature, these ...
Infinite-Horizon Choice Functions
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2006)
We analyze infinite-horizon choice functions within the setting of a simple linear technology. Time consistency and efficiency are characterized by stationary consumption and inheritance functions, as well as a transversality ...
Sharing the Cost of a Public Good: an Incentive-Constrained Axiomatic Approach
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2006-07)
We study the problem of provision and cost-sharing of a public good in large economies where exclusion, complete or partial, is possible. We search for incentive-constrained efficient allocation rules that display fairness ...
Priorities in the Location of Multiple Public Facilities
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2008-07)
A collective decision problem is described by a set of agents, a profile of single-peaked preferences over the real line and a number k of public facilities to be located. We consider public facilities that do not su¤er ...
Multi-Profile Intergenerational Social Choice
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2008-06)
Ferejohn and Page transplanted a stationarity axiom from Koopmans’ theory of impatience into Arrow’s social choice theory with an infinite horizon and showed that the Arrow axioms and stationarity lead to a dictatorship ...
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 ...
Sharing the Cost of a Public Good without Subsidies
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2006-07)
We study the construction of a social ordering function for the case of a public good financed by contributions from the population, and we extend the analysis of Maniquet and Sprumont (2004) to the case when contributions ...
A Characterization of Consistent Collective Choice Rules
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2006-08)
We characterize a class of collective choice rules such that collective preference relations are consistent. Consistency is a weakening of transitivity and a strengthening of acyclicity requiring that there be no cycles ...
Decisive Coalitions and Coherence Properties
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2009-03)
In a seminal contribution, Hansson has demonstrated that the family of decisive coalitions associated with an Arrovian social welfare function forms an ultrafilter. If the population under consideration is infinite, his ...