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Domain Closedness Conditions and Rational Choice
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2005)
The rationalizability of a choice function on an arbitrary domain under various coherence properties has received a considerable amount of attention both in the long-established and in the recent literature. Because domain ...
Intertemporal Social Evaluation
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2005)
Intertemporal social-evaluation rules provide us with social criteria that can be used to assess the relative desirability of utility distributions across generations. The trade-offs between the well-being of different ...
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 ...
Dynamic Measures of Individual Deprivation
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2005)
We introduce and axiomatize a one-parameter class of individual deprivation measures. Motivated by a suggestion of Runciman, we modify Yitzhaki’s index by multiplying it by a function that is interpreted as measuring the ...