The Concave Nontransitive Consumer
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The preference of a concave nontransitive consumer is represented by a skew-symmetric and concave-convex bifunction on the set of all commodity bundles. This paper characterizes finite sets of demand observations that are consistent with the demand behavior of such kind of consumer by a generalized monotonicity property.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- J. Global Optimization
دوره 20 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2001