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Consistent Relations
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2006)
Consistency, a natural weakening of transitivity introduced in a seminal contribution by Suzumura (1976b), has turned out to be an interesting and promising concept in a variety of areas within economic theory. This paper ...
The Possibility of Ordering Infinite Utility Streams
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2004)
This paper revisits Diamond’s classical impossibility result regarding the ordering of infinite utility streams. We show that if no representability condition is imposed, there do exist strongly Paretian and finitely ...
Harsanyi’s Social Aggregation Theorem : A Multi-Profile Approach with Variable-Population Extensions
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2003)
This paper provides new versions of Harsanyi’s social aggregation theorem that are formulated in terms of prospects rather than lotteries. Strengthening an earlier result, fixed-population ex-ante utilitarianism is ...
Population Ethics and the Value of Life
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2003)
Public policies often involve choices of alternatives in which the size and the composition of the population may vary. Examples are the allocation of resources to prenatal care and the design of aid packages to developing ...
Core Retionalizability in Two-Agent Exchange Economies
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2000)
We provide a characterization of selection correspondences in two-person exchange economies that can be core rationalized in the sense that there exists a preference profile with some standard properties that generates the ...