Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Bossert, Walter 
Author-Name: Peters, Hans 
Author-workplace-name: METEOR
Title: Single-peaked choice
Abstract: Single-peaked preferences have played an important role in the literature ever since they were used by Black (1948) to formulate a domain restriction that is sufficient for theexclusion of cycles according to the majority rule. In this paper, we approach single-peakedness from a choice-theoretic perspective. We show that the well-known axiom independence of irrelevant alternatives (a form of contraction consistency) and a weakcontinuity requirement characterize a class of single-peaked choice functions.  Moreover, we examine the rationalizability and the rationalizability-representability of these choice functions. 
Keywords: microeconomics ; 
Series: Research Memoranda
Creation-Date: 2006
Number: 037
File-URL: http://edocs.ub.unimaas.nl/loader/file.asp?id=1188
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File-Size: 198982
Handle: RePEc:unm:umamet:2006037