Decentralized Pricing in Minimum Cost Spanning Trees

Research output: Working paperResearch

Documents

  • PDF

    Final published version, 224 KB, PDF document

In the minimum cost spanning tree model we consider decentralized pricing rules, i.e. rules that cover at least the ecient cost while the price charged to each user only depends upon his own connection costs. We de ne a canonical pricing rule and provide two axiomatic characterizations. First, the canonical pricing rule is the smallest among those that improve upon the Stand Alone bound, and are either superadditive or piece-wise linear in connection costs. Our second, direct characterization relies on two simple properties highlighting the special role of the source cost.

Original languageEnglish
PublisherDepartment of Economics, University of Copenhagen
Number of pages15
Publication statusPublished - 2008

Number of downloads are based on statistics from Google Scholar and www.ku.dk


No data available

ID: 8318151