Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Yin, Xiuxia
Author-Name: Dietzenbacher, Bas
Author-workplace-name: RS: GSBE other - not theme-related research, QE Math. Economics & Game Theory
Title: Sharing money with a status quo: the uniform rule
Abstract: This paper studies the allocation of a perfectly divisible good among agents with a status quo payoff. The aggregate status quo payoff may exceed the total amount to be shared or fall short. We introduce and analyze the uniform rule which divides as equally as possible provided that either all agents lose or all agents win with respect to their status quo payoff. We provide several axiomatic characterizations based on contraction and expansion properties. On the domains of claims problems and surplus problems, our results offer some new characterizations of the constrained equal awards rule and the constrained equal welfare rule, respectively.
Keywords: resource allocation, status quo, uniform rule, axiomatic analysis
Series: GSBE Research Memoranda
Creation-Date: 20260409
Number: 002
File-URL: https://cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/ws/files/306414505/RM26002.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 438261
Handle: Repec:unm:umagsb:2026002
DOI: 10.26481/umagsb.2026002