Balanced allocation methods for claims problems with indivisibilities

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 30 - Trang 603-617 - 2007
Carmen Herrero1, Ricardo Martínez2,3
1Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico and Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain
2Department of Economics, Brown University, Providence, USA
3Department of Economics, Pablo de Olavide University, Sevilla, Spain

Tóm tắt

We study claims problems in which a certain amount of indivisible units (of an homogeneous good) has to be distributed among a group of agents, when this amount is not enough to fully satisfy agents’ demands. Our aim is to find solutions fulfilling procedural and fairness properties. To do that, we define the M-down methods, which are the unique robust (composition down and consistency) and fair (balancedness and conditional full compensation) rules. Besides, we also establish the relationship between these M-down methods and the constrained equal awards rule.

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