The Role of Replication-Invariance: Two Answers Concerning the Problem of Fair Division when Preferences are Single-Peaked

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Title
The Role of Replication-Invariance: Two Answers Concerning the Problem of Fair Division when Preferences are Single-Peaked
Journal
The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics
Author(s)
Klaus B.
ISSN
1935-1704
Publication state
Published
Issued date
2010
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
10
Number
1
Pages
NA
Language
english
Notes
Contributions, Article 14
Abstract
We consider the problem of allocating an infinitely divisible commodity among a group of agents with single-peaked preferences. A rule that has played a central role in the previous analysis of the problem is the so-called uniform rule. Thomson (1995b) proved that the uniform rule is the only rule satisfying Pareto optimality, no-envy, one-sided population-monotonicity, and replication-invariance. Replacing one-sided population-monotonicity by one-sided replacement-domination yields another characterization of the uniform rule (Thomson, 1997a). Until now, the independence of replication-invariance from the other properties in these characterizations was an open problem. In this note we prove this independence by means of a single example.
Keywords
Fair allocation, Single-peaked preferences, Population-monotonicity, Replacement-domination, Replication-invariance
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