Equal treatment of unsatisfied agents

Doudou Gong and Bas Dietzenbacher

Mathematical Social Sciences, 2025, vol. 137, issue C

Abstract: In many models of resource allocation, agents are characterized by certain rights, needs, or demands. We impose the requirement that all agents who are not fully compensated are assigned the same amount, and explore it in the models of claims problems, division problems with single-peaked preferences, and division problems with single-dipped preferences. In combination with other properties, we obtain respective axiomatizations of the well-known constrained equal awards rule, the well-known uniform rule, and two families of rules for the single-dipped model.

Keywords: resource allocation; equal treatment of unsatisfied agents; axiomatic analysis; constrained equal awards rule; uniform rule (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 D71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2025.102411

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