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We address the issue of the allocation of railway track maintenance (wear-and-tear) costs to traffic output classes and consider a very general function relating maintenance cost C to a set of technical production characteristics K used to produce traffic output vector T. We neglect other rail...
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Focusing on individual labor market positions, this article proposes a new approach to elicit and measure constraints faced by rural households. Under market imperfections, individuals fail to equalize their hourly income to their shadow wage and become over- or underemployed. We estimate and...
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for the consensus problems, in particular in the case of the aggregation of linear orders. First we consider the medians …
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We provide a general theorem on the aggregation of preferences under uncertainty. We study, in the Anscombe …-dependent versions of these models). We prove that aggregation is possible and necessarily linear if (society's) preferences are "smooth … possibility of aggregation of non-smooth preferences. …
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. In this paper we consider the three classes of choice functionssatisfying the three significant axioms called heredity (H), concordance (C) and outcast (O). We show that the set of choice functions satisfying any one of these axioms is a lattice, and we study the properties of these lattices....
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The paper addresses the problem of extending aggregation operators typically defined on $[0,1]$ to the symmetric … interval $[-1,1]$, where the ``0'' value plays a particular role (neutral value). We distinguish the cases where aggregation … using an interpolation approach, supposing the value of the aggregation to be known for ternary vectors. …
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that aggregation is possible and necessarily linear if and only if (society's) preferences are uncertainty neutral. The … number of ways to restore the possibility of aggregation are then discussed. …
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The issue of technological unemployment receives perennial popular attention. Although there are previous empirical investigations that have focused on the relationship between innovation and employment, the originality of our approach lies in our choice of method. We focus on four 2-digit...
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We analyze the aggregation problem without the assumption that individuals and society have fully determined and … utilities, where it basically reduces to utilitarianism. In particular, aggregation rules may differ by the relationship between … individual and social indeterminacy. We characterize several subclasses of neutral aggregation rules and show that utilitarian …
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We provide a generalization of Harsanyi (1955)'s aggregation theorem to the case of incomplete preferences at the … aggregation rules that are utilitarian in a generalized sense. Strengthening Pareto indifference to Pareto preference provides a …
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