Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name:  Jens Leth Hougaard
Author-Name-First: Jens Leth
Author-Name-Last: Hougaard
Author-Email: jlh@foi.ku.dk
Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen
Author-Name:  Juan D. Moreno-Ternero
Author-Name-First: Juan D.
Author-Name-Last: Moreno-Ternero
Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Economics, Universidad de Malaga and Pablo de Olavide
Author-Name:  Lars Peter Østerdal
Author-Name-First:  Lars Peter 
Author-Name-Last: Østerdal
Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen
Title:  A unifying framework for the problem of adjudicating conflicting claims
Abstract: In a recent paper, Thomson and Yeh [Operators for the adjudication of conflicting claims, Journal of Economic Theory 143 (2008) 177-198] introduced the concept of operators on the space of rules for the problem of adjudicating conflicting claims. They focussed on three operators in order to uncover the structure of such a space. In this paper, we generalize their analysis upon presenting and studying a general family of operators inspired by three apparently unrelated approaches to the problem of adjudicating conflicting claims. We study the structural properties of this family and show, in particular, that most of Thomson and Yeh’s results are specific cases of our study.
Length: 23 pages
Creation-Date:  2011-01
File-URL: http://okonomi.foi.dk/workingpapers/MSAPpdf/MSAP2011/MSAP_WP01_2011.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
Number: 01_2011
Classification-JEL: D63
Keywords: rationing, operators, baselines, composition, claims
Handle: RePEc:foi:msapwp:01_2011