Sharing a polluted river through environmental taxes
Verlag: Universidad de Murcia. Departamento de Estadística e Investigación Operativa
ISBN: 978-84-691-8159-1
Datum der Publikation: 2009
Kongress: Congreso Nacional de Estadística e Investigación Operativa (31. 2009. Murcia)
Art: Konferenz-Beitrag
Zusammenfassung
We consider a river divided into n segments. There are n agents located along the river who generate residues. The river requires cleansing and it entails some cost. We propose several rules to distribute the total pollutant-cleaning cost among all the agents. For each rule we provide an axiomatic characterization using properties based in taxes over water. Moreover, we prove that one of the rules coincides with the weighted Shapley value of a game asociated with the problem