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Dimitrov, Dinko - In: Economics Bulletin 4 (2001) 3, pp. 1-6

We show that the incompatibility between the Pareto principle and the notion of non-discrimination as presented in Xu (2000) continues to hold when the individuals have exact preferences and the social preference relation is allowed to be a reflexive and transitive fuzzy binary relation. Our...

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Choice Rules with Size Constraints for Multiple Criteria Decision Making

Alfandari, Laurent - ESSEC Business School - 2004

In outranking methods for Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM), pair-wise comparisons of alternatives are often summarized through a fuzzy preference relation. In this paper, the binary preference relation is extended to pairs of subsets of alternatives in order to define on this basis a...

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On a Consensus Measure in a Group Multi-Criteria Decision Making Problem.

Fedrizzi, Michele - Dipartimento di Informatica e Studi Aziendali, … - 2010

A method for consensus measuring in a group decision problem is presented for the multiple criteria case. The decision process is supposed to be carried out according to Saaty's Analytic Hierarchy Process, and hence using pairwise comparison among the alternatives. Using a suitable distance...

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Identifying nontransitive preferences

Alós-Ferrer, Carlos; Fehr, Ernst; Garagnani, Michele - 2023

Transitivity is perhaps the most fundamental choice axiom and, therefore, almost all economic models assume that … preferences are transitive. The empirical literature has regularly documented violations of transitivity, but these violations … deterministic part of individuals' preferences. However, what if transitivity violations reflect individuals' genuinely …

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Transitivity in health utility measurement: An experimental analysis

Schmidt, Ulrich; Stolpe, Michael - In: Health Economics Review 1 (2011) 12, pp. 1-4

Several experimental studies have observed substantial violations of transitivity for decisions between risky lotteries … for generating violations of transitivity. Since we find neither substantial nor systematic deviations from transitive …

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An experimental investigation of violations of transitivity in choice under uncertainty

Birnbaum, Michael H.; Schmidt, Ulrich - 2008

Several models of choice under uncertainty imply systematic violations of transitivity of preference. Our experiments … patterns. We can retain the hypothesis that transitivity best describes the data of the vast majority of participants. …

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Empirical Tests of Intransitivity Predicted by Models of Risky Choice

Birnbaum, Michael H.; Schmidt, Ulrich - 2006

Recently proposed models of risky choice imply systematic violations of transitivity of preference. Five studies … repeated intransitive patterns. We can retain the hypothesis that transitivity best describes the data of the vast majority of …

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Level r Consensus and Stable Social Choice

Mahajne, Muhammad; Nitzan, Shmuel; Volij, Oscar - 2014

We propose the concept of level r consensus as a useful property of a preference profile which considerably enhances the stability of social choice. This concept involves a weakening of unanimity, the most extreme form of consensus. It is shown that if a preference profile exhibits level r...

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Consistent comparisons of real incomes across time and space

Feenstra, Robert C.; Ma, Hong; Rao, D.S. Prasada - 2009

provides an analytical framework for making real income comparisons across countries and over time that satisfy transitivity …

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When three's a crowd: How relational structure and social history shape organizational codes in triads

Koçak, Özgecan; Warglien, Massimo - In: Journal of Organization Design 9 (2020) 1, pp. 1-27

When members of an organization share communication codes, coordination across subunits is easier. But if groups interact separately, they will each develop a specialized code. This paper asks: Can organizations shape how people interact in order to create shared communication codes? What kinds...

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