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Chapter Twenty. Social Choice with Fuzzy Preferences

Richard, Barrett; Maurice, Salles - In: Handbook of social choice and welfare : volume 2, (pp. 367-389). 2011

Fuzzy set theory has been explicitly introduced to deal with vagueness and ambiguity. One can also use probability theory or techniques borrowed from philosophical logic. In this chapter, we consider fuzzy preferences and we survey the literature on aggregation of fuzzy preferences. We restrict...

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A functional representation of fuzzy preferences

Wang, Susheng - In: Theoretical economics letters 7 (2017) 1, pp. 13-22

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Identifying nontransitive preferences

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

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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Consistency of distributed preference relations

Fu, Chao; Chang, Wenjun; Liu, Weiyong; Yang, Shanlin - In: Journal of the Operational Research Society 73 (2022) 4, pp. 905-918

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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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Transitive preferences in multi-member households

Smeulders, Bart; Cherchye, Laurens; Rock, Bram de; … - 2014

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Level r consensus and stable social choice

Mahajne, Muhammad; Nitsan, Shemuʾel; 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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Preference and similarity between alternatives

Binder, Constanze - 2014

between transitivity (of preferences) and the choice-relevant similarities between options. …

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Level r consensus and stable social choice

Mahajne, Muhammad; Nitsan, Shemuʾel; Volij, Oscar - In: Social choice and welfare 45 (2015) 4, pp. 805-817

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Choice theory when agents can randomize

Stoye, Jörg - In: Journal of economic theory 155 (2015), pp. 131-151

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