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Generalized time-invariant overtaking

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  • Geir B. Asheim

    () (Department of Economics, University of Oslo, Norway)

  • Claude d’Aspremont

    () (CORE, Universit´e catholique de Louvain, Belgium)

  • Kuntal Banerjee

    () (Department of Economics, College of Business, Florida Atlantic University)

Abstract

We present a new version of the overtaking criterion, which we call generalized time-invariant overtaking. The generalized time-invariant overtaking criterion (on the space of infinite utility streams) is defined by extending proliferating sequences of complete and transitive binary relations defined on finite dimensional spaces. The paper presents a general approach that can be specialized to at least two, extensively researched examples, the utilitarian and the leximin orderings on a finite dimensional Euclidean space.

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Paper provided by Department of Economics, College of Business, Florida Atlantic University in its series Working Papers with number 08004.

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Length: 33 pages
Date of creation: Oct 2008
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Handle: RePEc:fal:wpaper:08004

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Keywords: Intergenerational justice; Utilitarianism; Leximin;

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Cited by:
  1. Lauwers, Luc, 2010. "Intergenerational equity, efficiency, and constructibility," Open Access publications from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven urn:hdl:123456789/274546, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
  2. Geir B. Asheim & Stéphane Zuber, 2011. "A Complete and Strongly Anonymous Leximin Relation on Infinite Streams," CESifo Working Paper Series 3578, CESifo Group Munich.
  3. Geir B. Asheim & Kuntal Banerjee, 2010. "Fixed-step anonymous overtaking and catching-up," International Journal of Economic Theory, The International Society for Economic Theory, vol. 6(1), pages 149-165.
  4. Sakai, Toyotaka, 2008. "Intergenerational equity and an explicit construction of welfare criteria," PIE/CIS Discussion Paper 395, Center for Intergenerational Studies, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University.

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