Cross sectional cost-allocations (COSAC) (allocation of costs to different products or objects at the same time intervals) are routine accounting procedures for most organisations. However, the purpose and decision making usefulness of COSAC remains controversial. Does COSAC have meaningful...

Firms routinely allocate the costs of common corporate resources down to divisions. The main insight of this paper is that any efficient allocation rule must reflect the firm's underlying cost structure. We propose a new allocation rule (the polynomial rule), which achieves efficiency and...

We s tudy minimum cost spanning tree problems for a given set of users connected to a source. We propose a rule of sharing such that each user may pay her cost for such a tree plus an additional amount to the others users . A reduction of her cost appears as a compensation from the other users....

The management of complex water resource systems that address water service recovery costs and consider adequate contributions and priorities require methods that integrate technical, economic, environmental, social and legal aspects into a comprehensive framework. In Europe, the Water Framework...

We propose a simple model which embeds cost allocation games into a richer structure to take into account that information on costs can be itself costly. The model is an outgrowth of experience on cost allocation for consortia of municipalities dealing with garbage collection. Copyright...

The cleaning up of waste present in transboundary rivers, which requires the cooperation of diferent authorities, is a problematic issue, especially when responsibility for the discharge of the waste is not well-defined. Following Ni and Wang [12] we assume that a river is a segment divided into...

Universal service providers (USP) are increasingly active in business segments other than the segment consisting of their Universal Service Obligation (USO). Price regulation of USO services is usually cost-oriented and differentiated between USO- and non-USO-products. Hence, regulatory rules on...

A set of agricultural suppliers with low demands can save on long-haul transportation costs by consolidating their product. We consider a system with stochastic demand and a single consolidation point near the suppliers. We propose a look-ahead heuristic that takes advantage of economies of...

A division rule for claims problems, also known as bankruptcy or rationing problems, based on the pseudo-average solution is studied (for 2-person problems). This solution was introduced in Moulin (Jpn Econ Rev 46:303–332, <CitationRef CitationID="CR14">1995</CitationRef>) for discrete cost allocation problems. Using the asymptotic...</citationref>

In this paper, we explain why the field of cost allocation problems with a coalition structure is a wide and promising unexplored research direction. In particular, we pose some open questions for airport games with a coalition structure.