This paper starts from a classical fair division situation of allocating an object among a set of agents. The problem is studied from both a cooperative and a bankruptcy point of view, analyzing the fairness properties of the proposed solutions.

In this paper, we consider a bankruptcy problem with the additional constraint that the estate has to be assigned in integer unities; differently from the approaches by other authors, we allow for non-integer claims. This situation poses new questions on the existence and the uniqueness of the...