What's so special about Euclidean distance? A characterization with applications to mobility and spatial voting

DOI10.1007/s00355-008-0353-5zbMath1190.91045MaRDI QIDQ839617

Valentino Dardanoni, Marcello D'Agostino

Publication date: 2 September 2009

Published in: Social Choice and Welfare (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00355-008-0353-5

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

91B12: Voting theory

91B72: Spatial models in economics

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