TY - JOUR
T1 - A unifying framework for the problem of adjudicating conflicting claims
AU - Hougaard, Jens Leth
AU - Østerdal, Lars Peter Raahave
AU - Moreno-Terero, Juan D.
PY - 2012/3
Y1 - 2012/3
N2 - In a recent paper, Thomson and Yeh [Thomson, W., Yeh, C.-H., 2008. Operators for the adjudication of conflicting claims. Journal of Economic Theory 143, 177–198] introduced the concept of operators on the space of rules for the problem of adjudicating conflicting claims. They focused 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.
AB - In a recent paper, Thomson and Yeh [Thomson, W., Yeh, C.-H., 2008. Operators for the adjudication of conflicting claims. Journal of Economic Theory 143, 177–198] introduced the concept of operators on the space of rules for the problem of adjudicating conflicting claims. They focused 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.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Rationing
KW - operators
KW - Baselines
KW - Composition
KW - Claims
U2 - 10.1016/j.jmateco.2012.01.004
DO - 10.1016/j.jmateco.2012.01.004
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0304-4068
VL - 48
SP - 107
EP - 114
JO - Journal of Mathematical Economics
JF - Journal of Mathematical Economics
IS - 2
ER -