And the Winners Are... An Axiomatic Approach to Selection from a Set

Daniele Checchi, Gianni De Fraja and Stefano Verzillo

No 8344, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We study here the problem of evaluating whether the selection from a set is close to the ranking determined by a measurable criterion. We propose a number of natural axioms and show that an index exists that satisfies all these axioms. The paper ends with an application of the index to Italian academia.

Keywords: ranking; merit; selection (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I23 I30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 19 pages
Date: 2014-07
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Published - published as 'Selections from ordered sets' in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2018, 50 (4), 677-703

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