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The Serial Property and Restricted Balanced Contributions in discrete cost sharing problems

Juan Carlos SantosEmilio Calvo

subject

Statistics and ProbabilityCost allocationMathematical optimizationInformation Systems and ManagementProperty (philosophy)Computer scienceModeling and SimulationMoulinDiscrete Mathematics and CombinatoricsCost sharingManagement Science and Operations ResearchShapley value

description

We show that the Serial Poperty and Restricted Balanced Contributions characterize the subsidy-free serial cost sharing method (Moulin (1995)) in discrete cost allocation problems.

https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02837567