Many recent works have investigated the question of extending a preference over a set of alternatives to its power set, as a way to provide a formal representation of the notion of freedom of choice. In general, the results are limited to the nite case, which excludes the case of economic...

Using a common framework, we consider the two existing extensions of the leximax criterion to infinite environments (Arlegi et al. (2005) and Ballester and De Miguel (2003)), and show that, though the respective definitions of the rules and their axiomatic characterizations appear to differ...

El fenÛmeno conocido como íciudad dispersaî, íciudad difusaî o íestallido urbanoî aparece datado desde los aÃ’os setenta en la bibliograf’a cient’fica (Bauer & Roux, 1976; Indovina, 1990; Garreau, 1991; Choay, 1994; Fishman, 1994; Dupuy, 1995; Jenks, Burton & Williams, 1996) al describir y analizar las...

This paper provides a different proposal for ranking sets of alternatives in terms of a lexicographic rule. We discuss how intensity of preference over alternatives may affect an individual’s choice out of the available set of alternatives. We provide an axiomatic characterization of an...