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- Title
Decentralized pricing in minimum cost spanning trees.
- Authors
Hougaard, Jens; Moulin, Hervé; Østerdal, Lars
- Abstract
In the minimum cost spanning tree model we consider decentralized pricing rules, i.e., rules that cover at least the efficient cost while the price charged to each user only depends upon his own connection costs. We define a canonical pricing rule and provide two axiomatic characterizations. First, the canonical pricing rule is the smallest among those that improve upon the Stand Alone bound, and are either superadditive or piece-wise linear in connection costs. Our second, direct characterization relies on two simple properties highlighting the special role of the source cost.
- Subjects
PRICE regulation; MATHEMATICAL models; UTILITY functions; MATHEMATICAL statistics; FINANCIAL risk; PRICE maintenance; REVENUE management; PRICE cutting; MARGINAL pricing
- Publication
Economic Theory, 2010, Vol 44, Issue 2, p293
- ISSN
0938-2259
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00199-009-0485-6