The reverse self-dual serial cost-sharing rule (Q456927)

This article presents a cost-sharing rule for cost-sharing problems where a private good is produced and shared by \(n\) agents. The article begins with an overview of the existing literature on cost-sharing rules, followed by the presentation of the reverse self-dual serial cost-sharing rule, which forms the main research contribution of the paper. Several properties and characterizations of this rule are presented with proof, including continuity, additivity, ranking and separable costs. The article concludes with a section containing some useful examples.