Table of Contents

I Opening addresses.- to the Third International Conference on Econometric Decision Models: Constructing Scalar-Valued Objective Functions.- Methodological Remarks on Objective Functions.- II Keynote address.- On the Preferences Characterization of Additively Separable Utility.- III Axiomatic foundations.- An Axiomatic Justification of Scalar Optimization.- Rational Choice Under Convex Conditions.- Additive Utility Without Solvability on All Components.- IV Collective objective functions.- Intransitive Preference Relations and Preference Differences.- Constructing an Objective Function for Aggregating Incomplete Preferences.- Lexicographical Maxmin Core Solutions for Cooperative Games.- Game Theoretic Axioms for Utilities with Random Choices.- V Practical construction of objective functions.- A Bounding Procedure for Expected Multiattribute Utility.- Constructing Quadratic and Polynomial Objective Functions.- Quadratic Objective Functions from Ordinal Data: Towards Reliable Representations of Policy Makers’ Preferences.- Practical Implementation of a Survey for Estimating Quadratic Objective Functions.- Towards Constructing an Objective Function for Austrian Fiscal Policy-Making: An Optimum Control Approach.- Game Theoretic Model for Constructing Linear Objective Functions.- VI Welfare functions and consumer demand.- Integrability Conditions, Income Distribution, and Social Structures.- ‘INDEX’—A Tool for Calculating Indices of Aggregated Consumer Demand Based on a Nonparametric Method for Analysis and Forecasts.