Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Bossert Walter 
Author-Name: Peters Hans 
Author-workplace-name: METEOR
Title: Single-plateaued choice
Abstract: Single-plateaued  preferences generalize single-peaked preferences by allowing for multiple bestelements.  These preferences have played an important role in areas such as voting,strategy-proofness andmatching problems. We examine the notion of single-plateauedness in a choice-theoretic setting.Single-plateaued choice is characterized by means of a collinear interval continuity property inthe presence of independence of irrelevant alternatives. Further results establish that our notionof single-plateauedness conforms to the motivation underlying the term and we analyze theconsequences of alternative continuity properties. The importance of basic assumptions such asclosedness and convexity is discussed.
Keywords: microeconomics ; 
Series: Research Memoranda
Creation-Date: 2012
Number: 026
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Handle: RePEc:unm:umamet:2012026