کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
965589 930821 2011 6 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Foundations of spatial preferences
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه ریاضیات ریاضیات کاربردی
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Foundations of spatial preferences
چکیده انگلیسی
I provide an axiomatic foundation for the assumption of specific utility functions in a multidimensional spatial model, endogenizing the spatial representation of the set of alternatives. Given a set of objects with multiple attributes, I find simple necessary and sufficient conditions on preferences such that there exists a mapping of the set of objects into a Euclidean space where the utility function of the agent is linear city block, quadratic Euclidean, or more generally, it is the δ power of one of Minkowski (1886) metric functions. In a society with multiple agents I characterize the set of preferences that are representable by weighted linear city block utility functions, and I discuss how the result extends to other Minkowski utility functions.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Mathematical Economics - Volume 47, Issue 2, March 2011, Pages 200-205
نویسندگان
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