Maximal elements of non-binary choice functions on compact sets

Economics Letters

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 337-340

  Nehring, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acyclic preference; Choice consistency; Continuity; Maximization; Non binary choice function

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030306162     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0165-1765(95)00763-6     Document Type: Article

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