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Utilitarian Preferences and Potential Games

Salonen, Hannu - 2013

We study games with utilitarian preferences: the sum of individual utility functions is a generalized ordinal potential … potential is better reply equivalent to a game with utilitarian preferences. It follows that generically, finite games with a … has a continuous ordinal potential, iff there is a better reply equivalent continuous game with utilitarian preferences …

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Utilitarian Preferences and Potential Games

Salonen, Hannu - Turun Kauppakorkeakoulu, Turun Yliopisto - 2013

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Social Welfare Analysis of Income Distributions: Ranking Income Distributions with Crossing Generalised Lorenz Curves

Bellù, Lorenzo Giovanni; Liberati, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

This paper illustrates how Crossing Generalised Lorenz (GL) curves can be used to identify the best income distribution on social welfare grounds within a set of alternative income distributions generated by different policy options. It starts by illustrating two alternative income distributions...

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