RT Journal Article
T1 Allocating the costs of cleaning a river: expected responsibility versus median responsibility
A1 Alcalde Unzu, Jorge
A1 Gómez Rúa, María
A1 Molis, Elena
K1 5399 Otras Especialidades económicas
AB We consider the problem of cleaning a transboundary river, proposed by Ni and Wang (Games Econ Behav 60:176–186, 2007). A river is modeled as a segment divided into subsegments, each occupied by one region, from upstream to downstream. The waste is transferred from one region to the next at some rate. Since this transfer rate may be unknown, the social planner could have uncertainty over each region’s responsibility. Two natural candidates to distribute the costs in this setting would be the method that assigns to each region its expected responsibility and the one that assigns to each region its median responsibility. We show that the latter is equivalent to the Upstream Responsibility method (Alcalde-Unzu et al. in Games Econ Behav 90:134–150, 2015) and the former is a new method that we call Expected Responsibility. We compare both solutions and analyze them in terms of a new property of monotonicity.
PB International Journal of Game Theory
SN 00207276
YR 2021
FD 2021-03
LK http://hdl.handle.net/11093/2815
UL http://hdl.handle.net/11093/2815
LA eng
NO International Journal of Game Theory, 50, 185-214 (2020)
NO Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad | Ref. ECO2015-64330-P
DS Investigo
RD 15-oct-2024