A Unifying Framework for the Problem of Adjudicating Conflicting Claims

Jens Hougaard (), Juan Moreno-Ternero and Lars Peter Østerdal

No 11-03, Discussion Papers from University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics

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.

Keywords: rationing; operators; baselines; composition; claims (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20 pages
Date: 2011-01
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