Sharing a polluted river through environmental taxes
Argitaletxea: Universidad de Murcia. Departamento de Estadística e Investigación Operativa
ISBN: 978-84-691-8159-1
Argitalpen urtea: 2009
Biltzarra: Congreso Nacional de Estadística e Investigación Operativa (31. 2009. Murcia)
Mota: Biltzar ekarpena
Laburpena
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