Article ID: | iaor20111429 |
Volume: | 70 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 13 |
End Page Number: | 26 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2011 |
Journal: | Theory and Decision |
Authors: | Andrikopoulos Athanasios |
We characterize the existence of semicontinuous weak utilities in a general framework, where the axioms of transitivity and acyclicity are relaxed to that of consistency in the sense of Suzumura (Economica 43:381–390, 1976). This kind of representations allow us to transfer the problem of the existence of the