On the existence of most-preferred alternatives in complete lattices

Kukushkin, Nikolai S. (2010): On the existence of most-preferred alternatives in complete lattices.

Abstract

If a preference ordering on a complete lattice is quasisupermodular, or just satisfies a rather weak analog of the condition, then it admits a maximizer on every subcomplete sublattice if and only if it admits a maximizer on every subcomplete subchain

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: lattice optimization; quasisupermodularity
• Subjects: D - Microeconomics > D1 - Household Behavior and Family Economics > D11 - Consumer Economics: Theory; C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C6 - Mathematical Methods ; Programming Models ; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling > C61 - Optimization Techniques ; Programming Models ; Dynamic Analysis

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