Maurice Koster
| Date of Ph.D. defense: | December 13, 1999 |
| Title of thesis: | Cost Sharing in Production Situations and Network Exploitation |
| ISBN: | 90 5668 057 9 |
| Promotors: | Prof.dr. Stef Tijs and Dr. Peter Borm |
Abstract:
In many real-life situations where individuals work together in a
joint project, joint costs (or profits) occur which have to be shared.
The central problem of cost sharing is the allocation of costs in a
'just' way among the participants. Examples are numerous and range
from setting fees for the use of a common facility such as
(tele)communication networks, water supply systems, power plants,
airports and transit systems, to the allocation of joint overhead
costs of a firm among its divisions. It is the central issue of this
monograph to address the problem of sharing the cost of a particular
technology by a group of agents with equal access rights and unequal
demands, in the presence of variable returns. Inspired by ideas from
game theory and the (axiomatic) literature on distributive justice,
this thesis considers solution concepts for homogeneous and
heterogeneous cost sharing problems. The first part of the thesis
discusses (continuous) cooperative production problems, whereas the
second part is devoted to (discrete) cost sharing problems involved
with network exploitation.
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