The Serial Cost Sharing Rule has been conceived originally for problems where agents ask for different quantities of an homogeneous private good, the sum of which is produced by a single facility. In this context, it is endowed with a variety of desirable equity and coherency properties. This...

The US unemployment insurance system is experience rated. Firms using the system more often have to pay higher UI taxes in order to cover the additional burden imposed on the system. Experience rating introduces a tax on layoffs which is supposed to counterbalance the implicit layoff subsidy...