Do we agree? Measuring the cohesiveness of preferences

Jorge Alcalde-Unzu () and Marc Vorsatz

Theory and Decision, 2016, vol. 80, issue 2, 313-339

Abstract: The closeness (or cohesiveness) of preferences in a preference profile has mainly been measured by aggregating the distances between each pair of preferences. We argue in this paper that some important information is lost in this process and we opt for considering the profile as a whole when constructing such a measure. With this idea in mind, we propose axioms a cohesiveness measure should satisfy and show that these properties fully characterize a new family of measures. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2016

Keywords: Cohesiveness; Characterization; Measure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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