Ordering infinite utility streams: Efficiency, continuity, and no impatience

[EN]We study two related versions of the no-impatience postulate in the context of transitive and reflexive relations on infinite utility streams which are not necessarily complete. Both are excluded by the traditional (weak) anonymity axiom. We show explicit social welfare relations satisfying Stro...

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Autores: Alcantud, José Carlos R., Dubey, Ram Sewak
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Salamanca (USAL)
Repositorio:GREDOS. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Salamanca
OAI Identifier:oai:gredos.usal.es:10366/127276
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10366/127276
Access Level:acceso embargado
Palabra clave:Relaciones de bienestar social
Cadenas de utilidades infinitas
Representación por multi-utilidad
No impaciencia
Continuous social welfare relation
Infinite utility streamsm
Multi-utility representation
No impatience
Richter-Peleg representation
5307.15 Teoría microeconómica
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Sumario:[EN]We study two related versions of the no-impatience postulate in the context of transitive and reflexive relations on infinite utility streams which are not necessarily complete. Both are excluded by the traditional (weak) anonymity axiom. We show explicit social welfare relations satisfying Strong Pareto and the weaker version of no-impatience that are compatible with continuity in all the traditional topologies in this field. However the stronger version of no-impatience is violated by all lower semicontinuous (in the sup or Campbell topologies) social welfare relations satisfying the Weak Pareto axiom.