Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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956819 | Journal of Economic Theory | 2012 | 18 Pages |
Abstract
We study the problem of allocating a bundle of perfectly divisible private goods from an axiomatic point of view, in situations where compensations can be made through monetary transfers. The key property we impose on the allocation rule requires that no agent should be able to gain by decomposing the problem into sequences of subproblems. Combined with additional standard properties, it leads to a characterization of the rule that shares the total surplus equally. Hence a traditional welfarist rule emerges as the unique consequence of our axioms phrased in a natural economic environment.
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Authors
Geoffroy de Clippel, Camelia Bejan,