Characterization of the existence of semicontinuous weak utilities for binary relations
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Semicontinuous utility; Acyclicity; Consistency; Satiation; $${{mathcal{GOCHA}}}$$ ; D11;All these keywords.
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- D11 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Theory
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