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Variable population egalitarian ethics and the critical-level: a note
(2000)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
This paper explores the introduction of a variable critical-level in a variable population context. We focus the attention on the “Critical-Level Egalitarian Rule”, a social evaluation procedure which compares two social ...
Incomplete preferences and the preference for flexibility
(1998)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
Sometimes individual agents display in their decisions a preference for having more opportunities to choose from. In this paper this fact is interpreted from a preference for flexibility approach, which links with the ...
Equality of opportunities: cardinality-based criteria
(1998)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
In this paper we study possible rankings of opportunity profiles. An opportunity profile is a list of sets of alternative opportunities, one set for each agent in the society. We compare such opportunity profiles on the ...
On procedural freedom of choice
(2004)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
Numerous works in the last decade have analyzed the question of how to compare opportunity sets as a way to measure and evaluate individual freedom of choice. This paper defends that, in many contexts, external procedural ...
Uncertainty with ordinal likelihood information
(2007)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
This paper proposes a new framework of choice under uncertainty, where the only information available to the decision maker is about the the ordinal likelihood of the different outcomes each action generates. This contrasts ...
Rational evaluation of actions under complete uncertainty
(2001)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
This work analyzes the problem of individual choice of actions under complete uncertainty. In this context, each action consists of a set of different possible outcomes with no probability distribution associated with them. ...
Freedom of choice: the leximax criterion in economic environments
(2000)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
Many recent works have investigated the question of extending a preference over a set of alternatives to its power set, as a way to provide a formal representation of the notion of freedom of choice. In general, the results ...
Freedom of choice and conflict resolution
(2005)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
This work is an output of my participation in the project 'Procedural Approaches to Conflict Resolution', coordinated by Professor Matthias Raith. The main goal of the project was making an interdisciplinary approach to ...
Ranking sets additively in decisional contexts: an axiomatic characterization
(2006)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
Ranking finite subsets of a given set X of elements is the formal object of analysis in this paper. This problem has found a wide range of economic interpretations in the literature. The focus of the paper is on the family ...
On freedom of choice, ambiguity, and the preference for easy choices
(2006)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
This paper is devoted to the study of opportunity set comparisons when the characteristics of the options within the sets in question may be ambiguous. We assume that agents display a preference for freedom of choice, but ...