On the multi-utility representation of preference relations

Journal of Mathematical Economics

Volumn 47, Issue 4-5, 2011, Pages 554-563

  Evren, Özgür ^a   Ok, Efe A ^b  

^a NEW ECONOMIC SCHOOL   (Russian Federation)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Incomplete preferences; Multi objective optimization; Ordinal; Utility representation

Indexed keywords

EID: 83055194486     PISSN: 03044068     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmateco.2011.07.003     Document Type: Article

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