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econ.TH2025
Dividing a cake for the irrationally entitled
Florian Brandl, Andrew Mackenzie
A perfectly divisible cake is to be divided among a group of agents. Each agent is entitled to a share between zero and one, and these entitlements are compatible in that they sum…
econ.TH2023
Patience ensures fairness
Florian Brandl, Andrew Mackenzie
We revisit the problem of fairly allocating a sequence of time slots when agents may have different levels of patience (Mackenzie and Komornik 2023). For each number of agents, we…