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A characterization of acyclic preferences on countable sets

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  • Begoña Subiza Martínez

    (Universidad de Alicante)

  • Carmen Herrero Blanco

    (Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas)

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In this paper a new numerical representation of preferences (by means of set-valued real functions) is proposed. Our representation extends the usual utility function (in case preferences are preorder-type) as well as the pairwise representation (in case preferences are interval-order type). Then, we provide a characterization of acyclic preference relations on countable sets as those admitting a set-valued numerical representation.

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  • Begoña Subiza Martínez & Carmen Herrero Blanco, 1991. "A characterization of acyclic preferences on countable sets," Working Papers. Serie AD 1991-01, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie).
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