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Claim games for estate division problems

Article
Author/s: 
Hans Peters, Marc Schröder, Dries Vermeulen
Games and Economic Behavior
Issue number: 
Volume 116, July 2019
Publisher: 
Elsevier
Year: 
2019
Journal pages: 
105-115
Journal Article [1]
The estate division problem considers the issue of dividing an estate when the sum of entitlements is larger than the estate. This paper studies the estate division problem from a noncooperative perspective. The integer claim game introduced by O'Neill (1982) and extended by Atlamaz et al. (2011) is generalized by specifying a sharing rule to divide every interval among the claimants. We show that for all problems for which the sum of entitlements is at most twice the estate the existence of a Nash equilibrium is guaranteed for a general class of sharing rules. Moreover, the corresponding set of equilibrium payoffs is independent of which sharing rule in the class is used. Well-known division rules that always assign a payoff vector in this set of equilibrium payoffs are the adjusted proportional rule, the random arrival rule and the Talmud rule.
Tags: 
Game Theory & Graphs [2]
Trade Theory [3]

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