How to Divide When There Isn't Enough develops a rigorous yet accessible presentation of
the state-of-the-art for the adjudication of conflicting claims and the theory of taxation. It …

A group of agents have claims on a resource but there is not enough of it to honor all of the
claims. How should it be divided? A group of agents decide to undertake a public project …

Given the ranking of competitors, how should the prize endowment be allocated? This paper
introduces and axiomatically studies the prize allocation problem. We focus on consistent …

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We revisit the “claims problem”(O'Neill, 1982), where a group of individuals have claims on a
resource but there is not enough of it to honor all of the claims. We characterize the rules …

A group of agents have uncertain needs on a resource, which must be allocated before
uncertainty resolves. We propose a parametric class of division rules we call equal-quantile …

The Reverse Talmud rule for bankruptcy problems applies the Constrained Equal Awards
rule (CEA rule) for 'large'amounts of the estate, while it applies the Constrained Equal …

This study aims to model the distribution of the tax burden in schedular progressive taxation
and to describe the key characteristics of such models, in particular their differences from the …

We take an axiomatic approach to study redistribution problems when agents report income
and needs. We formalize axioms reflecting ethical and operational principles such as …

This paper analyzes a family of rules for bankruptcy problems that generalizes the so-called
reverse Talmud rule and encompasses both the constrained equal-awards rule and the …