On Properties of Division Rules Lifted by Bilateral Consistency

Found at: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/4029
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Type:	Working Paper
Author:	Hokari, Toru; Thomson, William
Date:	2007
Agency:	Rochester Center for Economic Research, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA
Series:	Working Paper No. 536
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/4029
Sector:	Theory
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Subject(s):	conflict property rights rules
Abstract:	"We consider the problem of adjudicating conflicting claims in the context of a variable population. A property of rules is 'lifted' if whenever a rule satisfies it in the two-claimant case, and the rule is bilaterally consistent, it satisfies it for any number of claimants. We identify a number of properties that are lifted, such as equal treatment of equals, resource monotonicity, composition down and composition up, and show that continuity, anonymity and self-duality are not lifted. However, each of these three properties is lifted if the rule is resource monotonic."

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