Overview
Up-to-date overview of existing methods for allocating costs and benefits
Highlights the pros and cons of each methods along various principles
Practical cases and numerous examples
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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About this book
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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Reviews H. Moulin, M. Koster
From the reviews:
“The referred volume is organized as a summary textbook offering mathematical analysis of a series of typical allocation rules. It offers an overview and mathematical formalism of current knowledge of its field of interest, focused on allocating monetary costs among members of a group or network of agents. … The theoretical models are completed by numerous illustrative examples, and all particular chapters are closed by methodological comments, a heuristic summary and a sufficient list of references.” (Milan Mareš, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1178, 2010)
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: An Introduction to Allocation Rules
Authors: Jens Leth Hougaard
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01828-2
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-01827-5Published: 07 August 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-42507-3Published: 31 October 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-01828-2Published: 09 July 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 154
Topics: Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods, Microeconomics, Operations Research/Decision Theory