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Vocabulary aggregation

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  • Marco LiCalzi

    (Dept. of Management, Venice School of Management, Università Ca' Foscari Venice)

  • M. Alperen Yasar

    (Dept. of Economics, Università Ca' Foscari Venice and Panthéon-Sorbonne University)

Abstract

A vocabulary is a list of words designating subsets of points from a grand set X. We model a vocabulary as a partition of X and study the aggregation of individual vocabularies into a collective one. We characterize aggregation rules when X is linearly ordered and each partition is formed by order intervals. Notably, we allow for individual vocabularies to differ both in the number and in the extension of their words. Under a suitable restriction on agents’ preferences, we show that our aggregation rules are strategy-proof.

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  • Marco LiCalzi & M. Alperen Yasar, 2024. "Vocabulary aggregation," Working Papers 06, Venice School of Management - Department of Management, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia.
    • Handle: RePEc:vnm:wpdman:215
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    Keywords

    collective judgement; ordinal scale of measurement; extended medians.;
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    JEL classification:

    • D70 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - General
    • D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
    • Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification

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