Sharing a polluted river through environmental taxes

• Autores: María Gómez Rúa
• Localización: XXXI Congreso Nacional de Estadística e Investigación Operativa ; V Jornadas de Estadística Pública: Murcia, 10-13 de febrero de 2009 : Libro de Actas, 2009, ISBN 978-84-691-8159-1
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • 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