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- Title
Strong monotonicity in surplus sharing.
- Authors
Friedman, Eric J.
- Abstract
We consider three new axioms for surplus sharing problems. The first is strong monotonicity which says that workers should be rewarded for increases in productivity and the second says that productive workers should receive some compensation. The third requires that the surplus sharing rule should be well defined (and continuous on) the set of threshold functions. We show that none of the standard "equitable" mechanisms satisfy any of these axioms and then present a constructive characterization of mechanisms which do. Using this we construct several new mechanisms. These are the Almost Flat mechanism, the Spread Aumann-Shapley mechanism, and the Spread Serial mechanism, which have many desirable properties.
- Subjects
SURPLUS (Economics); PRODUCTIVITY incentives; PENSIONS; AXIOMS; ECONOMICS
- Publication
Economic Theory, 2004, Vol 23, Issue 3, p643
- ISSN
0938-2259
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00199-003-0377-0