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Continuously Representable Paretian Quasi-Orders

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Two forms of continuity are defined for Pareto representations of preferences. They are designated “continuity” and “coordinate continuity.” Characterizations are given of those Pareto representable preferences that are continuously representable and, in dimension two, of those that are coordinate-continuously representable.

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    Vicki Knoblauch

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Knoblauch, V. Continuously Representable Paretian Quasi-Orders. Theor Decis 60, 1–16 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11238-005-4751-1

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