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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 ...
Multi-Profile Intertemporal Social Choice
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2012-08)
We provide a brief survey of some literature on intertemporal social choice theory in a multi-profile setting. As is well-known, Arrow’s impossibility result hinges on
the assumption that the population is finite. For ...
Strategy-proof preference aggregation
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2012-08)
An aggregation rule maps each profile of individual strict preference orderings
over a set of alternatives into a social ordering over that set. We call such a rule strategyproof if misreporting one’s preference never ...
Revealed Preference and Choice under Uncertainty
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2010-11-06)
We employ the theory of rational choice to examine whether observable choices from feasible sets of prospects can be generated by the optimization of some underlying
decision criterion under uncertainty. Rather than ...
Product Filters, Acyclicity and Suzumura Consistency
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2010-11-25)
In a seminal contribution, Hansson (1976) demonstrates that the collection of
decisive coalitions associated with an Arrovian social welfare function forms an ultrafilter. He goes on to show that if transitivity is weakened ...
Expected utility without full transitivity
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2014-05)
We generalize the classical expected-utility criterion by weakening transitivity to Suzumura consistency. In the absence of full transitivity, reflexivity and completeness no longer follow as a consequence of the system ...