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Measuring Economic Insecurity
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2009-03)
We provide a systematic treatment of the notion of economic insecurity, assuming that an individual’s sentiment of insecurity depends on the current wealth level and its variations experienced in the past. We think of ...
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 ...
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 ...
Quasi-Transitive and Suzumura Consistent Relations
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2009-03)
We examine properties of binary relations that complement quasi-transitivity and Suzumura consistency in the sense that they, together with the original axiom(s), are equivalent to transitivity. In general, the conjunction ...
Multidimensional Poverty and Material Deprivation
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2009-08)
We examine the measurement of multidimensional poverty and material deprivation following the counting approach. In contrast to earlier contributions, dimensions of well-being are not forced to be equally important but ...