Optimization and external reference; A comparison of three axiomatic systems

Economics Letters

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 57-62

  Gaertner, Wulf ^a   Xu, Yongsheng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Choice Functions; D10; D71; D80; External References; Norms; Rationalizability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031287137     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0165-1765(97)81880-0     Document Type: Article

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