An Introduction to Allocation Rules
This book focuses on analyzing cost and surplus sharing problems in a systematic fashion. It offers an in-depth analysis of various types of rules for allocating a common monetary value (cost) between members of a group or network – e.g. individuals, firms or products. The results can help readers evaluate the pros and cons of the various methods involved in terms of various factors such as fairness, consistency, stability, monotonicity and manipulability. As such, the book represents an up-to-date survey of cost and surplus sharing methods for researchers, students and practitioners alike. The text is accompanied by practical cases and numerous examples to make the theoretical results easily accessible.

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An Introduction to Allocation Rules
This book focuses on analyzing cost and surplus sharing problems in a systematic fashion. It offers an in-depth analysis of various types of rules for allocating a common monetary value (cost) between members of a group or network – e.g. individuals, firms or products. The results can help readers evaluate the pros and cons of the various methods involved in terms of various factors such as fairness, consistency, stability, monotonicity and manipulability. As such, the book represents an up-to-date survey of cost and surplus sharing methods for researchers, students and practitioners alike. The text is accompanied by practical cases and numerous examples to make the theoretical results easily accessible.

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An Introduction to Allocation Rules

An Introduction to Allocation Rules

by Jens Leth Hougaard
An Introduction to Allocation Rules

An Introduction to Allocation Rules

by Jens Leth Hougaard

Paperback(2009)

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This book focuses on analyzing cost and surplus sharing problems in a systematic fashion. It offers an in-depth analysis of various types of rules for allocating a common monetary value (cost) between members of a group or network – e.g. individuals, firms or products. The results can help readers evaluate the pros and cons of the various methods involved in terms of various factors such as fairness, consistency, stability, monotonicity and manipulability. As such, the book represents an up-to-date survey of cost and surplus sharing methods for researchers, students and practitioners alike. The text is accompanied by practical cases and numerous examples to make the theoretical results easily accessible.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783642425073
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date: 10/31/2014
Edition description: 2009
Pages: 154
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.01(d)

Table of Contents

Motivation and a Few Cases.- Simple Sharing Problems.- Cost Allocation as Cooperative Games.- General Sharing Problems.- Sharing in Networks.
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