DEFINABLE PREFERENCES - AN EXAMPLE

Authors
RUBINSTEIN A
Citation
A. Rubinstein, DEFINABLE PREFERENCES - AN EXAMPLE, European economic review, 42(3-5), 1998, pp. 553-560
Citations number
6
Categorie Soggetti
Economics
Journal title
European economic review → ACNP
ISSN journal
00142921
Volume
42
Issue
3-5
Year of publication
1998
Pages
553 - 560
Database
ISI
SICI code
0014-2921(1998)42:3-5<553:DP-AE>2.0.ZU;2-K
Abstract
A preference relation is definable in a language if there is a formula in this language which is satisfied precisely for those pairs which s atisfy the relation. The paper suggests that definability is a natural category of requirements of preferences in economic models. To demons trate the analytical possibilities, the paper studies the set of defin able preferences in one context using Craig Lemma. (C) 1998 Elsevier S cience B.V. All rights reserved.