Fair agreements for sharing international rivers with multiple springs and externalities

Rene van den Brink (), Gerard van der Laan and Nigel Moes

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2012, vol. 63, issue 3, 388-403

Abstract: We consider the problem of sharing water among agents located along a river. Each agent's benefit depends on the amount of water consumed. An allocation of water is efficient when it maximizes total benefits. To sustain an efficient water allocation the agents can compensate each other by monetary transfers. Every water allocation and transfer schedule yield a welfare distribution, where an agent's utility equals its benefit plus (possibly negative) monetary transfer. The problem of finding a fair welfare distribution can be modeled by a cooperative game. We consider river situations with satiable agents and multiple springs. We propose the class of weighted hierarchical solutions, including the downstream incremental solution of Ambec and Sprumont (2002, [3]), as a class of solutions satisfying the ‘Territorial Integration of all Basin States’ principle for sharing water of international rivers. When all agents have increasing benefit functions, every weighted hierarchical solution is core-stable. In case of satiation points, every weighted hierarchical solution is independent of the externalities.

Keywords: Water allocation; River game; Externality; Core; Hierarchical outcome (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jeem.2011.11.003

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