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Biased Quantitative Measurement of Interval Ordered Homothetic Preferences

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Marc Le Menestrel ()
Bertrand Lemaire
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We represent interval ordered homothetic preferences with a quantitative homothetic utility function and a multiplicative bias. When preferences are weakly ordered (i.e. when indifference is transitive), such a bias equals 1. When indifference is intransitive, the biasing factor is a positive function smaller than 1 and measures a threshold of indifference. We show that the bias is constant if and only if preferences are semiordered, and we identify conditions ensuring a linear utility function. We illustrate our approach with indifference sets on a two dimensional commodity space.

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Paper provided by Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra in its series Economics Working Papers with number 789.

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Keywords: Weak order; semiorder; interval order; intransitive indifference; independence; homothetic; representation; linear utility;

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