Sharing the cost of redundant items

Jens Hougaard () and Herve Moulin

Games and Economic Behavior, 2014, vol. 87, issue C, 339-352

Abstract: We ask how to share the cost of finitely many public goods (items) among users with different needs: some smaller subsets of items are enough to serve the needs of each user, yet the cost of all items must be covered, even if this entails inefficiently paying for redundant items. Typical examples are network connectivity problems when an existing (possibly inefficient) network must be maintained.

Keywords: Cost sharing; Redundant costs; Connection networks; Connectivity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C71 D30 D85 M41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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Working Paper: Sharing the Cost of Redundant Items (2012)
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DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2014.05.010

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