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Distributive justice and the Nash bargaining solution

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posted on 2011-01-01, 00:00 authored by Nejat AnbarciNejat Anbarci, Ching-Jen SunChing-Jen Sun
Suppes-Sen dominance or SS-proofness (SSP) is a commonly accepted criterion of impartiality in distributive justice. Mariotti (Review of Economic Studies, 66, 733–741, 1999) characterized the Nash bargaining solution using Nash’s (Econometrica, 18, 155–162, 1950) scale invariance (SI) axiom and SSP. In this article, we introduce equity dominance (E-dominance). Using the intersection of SS-dominance and E-dominance requirements, we obtain a weaker version of SSP (WSSP). In addition, we consider α − SSP, where α measures the degree of minimum acceptable inequity aversion; α − SSP is weaker than weak Pareto optimality (WPO) when α = 1. We then show that it is still possible to characterize the Nash solution using WSSP and SI only or using α -SSP, SI, and individual rationality (IR) only for any a Î [0,1)[01). Using the union of SS-dominance and E-dominance requirements, we obtain a stronger version of SSP (SSSP). It turns out that there is no bargaining solution that satisfies SSSP and SI, but the Egalitarian solution turns out to be the unique solution satisfying SSSP.

History

Journal

Social choice and welfare

Volume

37

Issue

3

Pagination

453 - 470

Publisher

Springer-Verlag

Location

Dordrecht, The Netherlands

ISSN

0176-1714

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

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2010, Springer-Verlag