Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/86614 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. 07-062/1
Publisher: 
Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
Abstract: 
One of the main issues in economics is the trade-off between marginalism and egalitarianism. In the context of cooperative games this trade-off can be framed as one of choosing to allocate according to the Shapley value or the equal division solution. In this paper we provide tools that make it possible to study this trade-off in a consistent way by providing three types of results on egalitarian Shapley values being convex combinations of the Shapley value and the equal division solution. First, we show that all these solutions satisfy the same reduced game consistency. Second, we characterize this class of solutions using monotonicity properties. Finally, we provide a non-cooperative implementation for these solutions which only differ in the probability of breakdown at a certain stage of the game.
Subjects: 
Shapley value
Equal division solution
Egalitarian Shapley value
Reduced Game Consistency
Monotonicity
Implementation
JEL: 
C71
C72
D60
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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