Dichotomous Preferences and Power Set Extensions

Arlegi, Ritxar und Dimitrov, Dinko (7. Oktober 2008): Dichotomous Preferences and Power Set Extensions. Münchener Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Beiträge (VWL) 2008-19

Abstract

This paper is devoted to the study of how to extend a dichotomous partition of a universal set X into good and bad objects to an ordering on the power set of X. We introduce a family of rules that naturally take into account the number of good objects and the number of bad objects, and provide axiomatic characterizations of two rules for ranking sets in such a context.

• Dokumententyp: Paper
• Publikationsform: Preprint
• Keywords: dichotomy, objects, set extensions, ranking sets
• Fakultät: Volkswirtschaft > Munich Discussion Papers in Economics > Mikroökonomik
• Themengebiete: 300 Sozialwissenschaften > 300 Sozialwissenschaft, Soziologie ; 300 Sozialwissenschaften > 330 Wirtschaft
• JEL Classification: D81
• Sprache: Englisch