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Utility Independence on Subsets of Product Sets

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  • Peter C. Fishburn

    (Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania)

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This paper investigates conditions for utility independence in the von Neumann-Morgenstern utility context when the set of consequences is an arbitrary subset of the Cartesian product of two sets. The strongest of three increasingly stronger conditions on preferences between gambles is shown to be necessary and sufficient for utility independence when the consequence set is finite. Examples show that this condition is not generally sufficient when the number of consequences is infinite.

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  • Peter C. Fishburn, 1976. "Utility Independence on Subsets of Product Sets," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 24(2), pages 245-255, April.
  • Handle: RePEc:inm:oropre:v:24:y:1976:i:2:p:245-255
    DOI: 10.1287/opre.24.2.245
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    1. Guitouni, Adel & Martel, Jean-Marc, 1998. "Tentative guidelines to help choosing an appropriate MCDA method," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 109(2), pages 501-521, September.
    2. Rakesh Sarin & Peter Wakker, 1997. "A Single-Stage Approach to Anscombe and Aumann's Expected Utility," The Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic Studies Ltd, vol. 64(3), pages 399-409.
    3. Onur Şeref & J. Paul Brooks & Bernice Huang & Stephen S. Fong, 2017. "Enumeration and Cartesian Product Decomposition of Alternate Optimal Fluxes in Cellular Metabolism," INFORMS Journal on Computing, INFORMS, vol. 29(2), pages 197-210, May.
    4. Schneider, Frank, 2008. "Multiple criteria decision making in application layer networks," Bayreuth Reports on Information Systems Management 36, University of Bayreuth, Chair of Information Systems Management.

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