Cost monotonicity, consistency and minimum cost spanning tree games

نویسندگان

  • Bhaskar Dutta
  • Anirban Kar
چکیده

We propose a new cost allocation rule for minimum cost spanning tree games. The new rule is a core selection and also satis...es cost monotonicity. We also give characterization theorems for the new rule as well as the much-studied Bird allocation. We show that the principal di¤erence between these two rules is in terms of their consistency properties. JEL Classi...cation Numbers: D7

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Games and Economic Behavior

دوره 48  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2004