Stability under unanimous consent, free mobility and core

International Journal of Game Theory - Tập 35 - Trang 185-204 - 2006
Anna Bogomolnaia1, Michel Le Breton2, Alexei Savvateev3,4,5, Shlomo Weber6,7
1Rice University, Houston, USA
2GREMAQ and IDEI, Université de Toulouse I, Toulouse, France
3Central Economics and Mathematics Institute, Moscow, Russia
4Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
5New Economic School, Moscow, Russia
6Southern Methodist University, Dallas USA
7CORE, Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Tóm tắt

In this paper, we consider a population represented by a continuum of individuals uniformly distributed over the unit interval that faces a problem of location and financing of public facilities under the equal share rule. We examine three notions of stability of emerging jurisdiction structures (stability under unanimous consent, free mobility and core) and provide a characterization of stable structures.

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