Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/77760
Year of Publication: 
2011
Citation: 
[Journal:] SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association [ISSN:] 1869-4195 [Volume:] 2 [Issue:] 4 [Publisher:] Springer [Place:] Heidelberg [Year:] 2011 [Pages:] 529-550
Publisher: 
Springer, Heidelberg
Abstract: 
This article establishes versions of Moulin's (Public Choice 35:437-455, 1980) characterizations of various classes of strategy-proof social choice functions when the domain consists of all profiles of single-peaked preferences on an arbitrary subset of the real line. Two results are established that show that the median of 2n +1 numbers can be expressed using a combination of minimization and maximization operations applied to subsets of these numbers when either these subsets or the numbers themselves are restricted in a particular way. These results are used to show how Moulin's characterizations of generalized median social choice functions can be obtained as corollaries of his characterization of minmax social choice functions.
Subjects: 
generalized median social choice functions
Moulin minmax rules
single-peaked preferences
strategy-proofness
JEL: 
D71
D82
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Document Type: 
Article

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