Compatibility of egalitarian equivalence and envy-freeness in a continuum-agent economy

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 8 - Trang 97-103 - 2019
Susumu Cato1
1Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Tóm tắt

The purpose of this study is to investigate a relationship between egalitarian equivalence and envy-freeness in a continuum-agent economy, where tastes vary continuously across individuals. Under efficiency, the two criteria of equity are not compatible, except in the knife-edge case. In particular, when individual utility functions are restricted to the class of Cobb–Douglas-type functions, there exists an efficient, egalitarian-equivalent, and envy-free allocation if and only if all individuals have the same taste over commodities.

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