Aggregating Incomplete Lists

Clemens Puppe and Attila Tasnádi

Corvinus Economics Working Papers (CEWP) from Corvinus University of Budapest

Abstract: We study the aggregation of partial orders into a complete ordering, and prove both possibility and impossibility results in this context. First, we show that the standard independence of irrelevant alternatives condition is stronger here since even dictatorial aggregation rules may fail to satisfy it. On the other hand, domain restrictions enable non-dictatorial aggregation rules satisfying a number of attractive properties. In particular, we show that anonymous aggregation satisfying a weak form of independence of irrelevant alternatives is possible on a large class of 'extended' Condorcet domains.

Keywords: multi-criteria decision making; aggregation of partial orders and incomplete lists; Arrow’s theorem (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025-07-22
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