A counterexample on the completion of preferences with single crossing differences

Kukushkin, Nikolai S. and Quah, John K.-H. and Shirai, Koji (2016): A counterexample on the completion of preferences with single crossing differences.

Abstract

We provide an example of a data set where all the revealed preference relations seem to be consistent with single crossing differences and yet the revealed preference relations cannot be extended to a complete preference obeying that property

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: monotone comparative statics; single crossing differences; interval dominance; supermodular games; lattices
• Subjects: C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C6 - Mathematical Methods ; Programming Models ; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling; C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C7 - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory; D - Microeconomics > D7 - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making

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