Single-peaked choice

Walter Bossert () and Hans Peters
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No 37, Research Memoranda from Maastricht : METEOR, Maastricht Research School of Economics of Technology and Organization

Abstract: Single-peaked preferences have played an important role in the literature ever since they were used by Black (1948) to formulate a domain restriction that is sufficient for theexclusion of cycles according to the majority rule. In this paper, we approach single-peakedness from a choice-theoretic perspective. We show that the well-known axiom independence of irrelevant alternatives (a form of contraction consistency) and a weakcontinuity requirement characterize a class of single-peaked choice functions. Moreover, we examine the rationalizability and the rationalizability-representability of these choice functions.

Keywords: microeconomics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2006
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Working Paper: Single-Peaked Choice (2006)
Journal Article: Single-peaked choice (2009)
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