Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/197137 
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Year of Publication: 
2018
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[Journal:] Theoretical Economics [ISSN:] 1555-7561 [Volume:] 13 [Issue:] 1 [Publisher:] The Econometric Society [Place:] New Haven, CT [Year:] 2018 [Pages:] 1-18
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The Econometric Society, New Haven, CT
Abstract: 
Ranking by rating consists in evaluating the performances of items using exogenous rating functions and ranking these items according to their performance ratings. Any such method is separable: the ordering of two items does not depend on the performances of the remaining items. When performances belong to a finite set, ranking by rating is characterized by separability and a property of consistency; this characterization generalizes to the infinite case under a continuity axiom. Consistency follows from separability and symmetry or from monotonicity alone. When performances are vectors in R m + , a separable, symmetric, monotonic, continuous, and invariant method must rank items according to a weighted geometric mean of their performances along the m dimensions.
Subjects: 
Ranking methods
separability
JEL: 
D71
D89
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