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Expected Utility Consistent Extensions of Preferences

Article
Author/s: 
Burak Can, Bora Erdamar and M. Remzi Sanver
Theory and Decision
Issue number: 
2
Publisher: 
Springer-Verlag
Year: 
2009
Journal pages: 
123-144
Webpage [1]
We consider the problem of extending a (complete) order over a set to its power set. The extension axioms we consider generate orderings over sets according to their expected utilities induced by some assignment of utilities over alternatives and probability distributions over sets. The model we propose gives a general and unified exposition of expected utility consistent extensions whilst it allows to emphasize various subtleties, the effects of which seem to be underestimated – particularly in the literature on strategy-proof social choice correspondences.

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[1] http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11238-007-9066-y