Econometrica

Journal Of The Econometric Society

An International Society for the Advancement of Economic
Theory in its Relation to Statistics and Mathematics

Edited by: Guido W. Imbens • Print ISSN: 0012-9682 • Online ISSN: 1468-0262

Econometrica: Nov, 1992, Volume 60, Issue 6

An Application of the Shapley Value to Fair Division with Money

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2951524
p. 1331-1349

Herve Moulin

We consider the fair division of unproduced goods when monetary compensations are feasible and utilities are quasi-linear. Under efficiency, the four axioms: individual rationality, resource monotonicity, population solidarity, and stand alone test, show little compatibility. However when the goods have enough substitutability in everyone's preferences, the Shapley value of the surplus sharing game satisfies all four axioms. An example is the optimal assignment of indivisible goods when every agent consumes only one good.


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