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econ.TH2024
The Limits of Tolerance
Alan D. Miller
I propose a model of aggregation of intervals relevant to the study of legal standards of tolerance. Seven axioms: responsiveness, anonymity, continuity, strategyproofness, and thr…
econ.TH2023
Multiple Adjusted Quantiles
Christopher P. Chambers, Alan D. Miller
We cardinally and ordinally rank distribution functions (CDFs). We present a new class of statistics, maximal adjusted quantiles, and show that a statistic is invariant with respec…
econ.TH2021
Decreasing Impatience
Christopher P. Chambers, Federico Echenique, Alan D. Miller
We characterize decreasing impatience, a common behavioral phenomenon in intertemporal choice. Discount factors that display decreasing impatience are characterized through a conve…