Remarks concerning concave utility functions on finite sets

Economic Theory

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 333-344

  Kannai, Yakar ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Afriat Varian algorithm; Concave utility; Finite sets; Least concavity; Supergradients

Indexed keywords

EID: 11944262354     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00199-004-0545-x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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