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On the structure of simple preference-based choice functions

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Consider an agent with fuzzy preferences, who has to make exact choices when faced with different feasible sets of alternatives. Confining our analysis to the case of feasible sets with not more than two alternatives, we axiomatically characterize two broad classes of decision rules (`ratio rules' and `difference rules') for determining exact choices from these two-element feasible sets on the basis of fuzzy preferences.

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  1. Department of Economics, University of California at Riverside, Riverside, CA 92621, USA (e-mail: ppat@ucrac1.ucr.edu), , , , , , US

    Prasanta K. Pattanaik

  2. Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 1100067, India (e-mail: kunal@jnuniv.ernet.in), , , , , , IN

    Kunal Sengupta

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Received: 22 January 1997/Accepted: 2 October 1998

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Pattanaik, P., Sengupta, K. On the structure of simple preference-based choice functions. Soc Choice Welfare 17, 33–43 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00007173

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