This paper considers two-stage solutions for multi-issue allocation situations. Characterisations are provided for the two-stage constrained equal awards and constrained equal losses rules, based on the properties of composition and path independence

We consider a market situation with two corners. One corner consists of a single seller with one object, and the other corner consists of potential buyers who all want the object. We suppose that the valuations of the object for the different buyers is known by all of them. Then two cooperative...