No advantageous merging in minimum cost spanning tree problems

In the context of cost sharing in minimum cost spanning tree problems, we introduce a property called No Advantageous Merging. This property implies that no group of agents can be better off claiming to be a single node. We show that the sharing rule that assigns to each agent his own connection cost (the Bird rule) satisfies this property. Moreover, we provide a characterization of the Bird rule using No Advantageous Merging.

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Year of publication:	2006-10-24
Authors:	Gomez-Rua, Maria ; Vidal-Puga, Juan

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Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Gomez-Rua, Maria and Vidal-Puga, Juan (2006): No advantageous merging in minimum cost spanning tree problems.
Classification:	D61 - Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis ; C71 - Cooperative Games ; D7 - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making
Source:	BASE

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