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A Guide for the Young Economist: Writing and Speaking Effectively about Economics

A characterization of a family of rules for the adjudication of conflicting claims

A class of solutions to bargaining problems

A new characterization of the proportional rule for claims problems

A new solution to the problem of adjudicating conflicting claims

A refinement and extension of the no-envy concept

A study of choice correspondences in economies with a variable number of agents

article published in 1988

An informationally efficient equity criterion

Axiomatic Analysis of Resource Allocation Problems

Axiomatic Theory of Bargaining with a Variable Number of Agents

Axiomatic and game-theoretic analysis of bankruptcy and taxation problems: An update

Axiomatic and game-theoretic analysis of bankruptcy and taxation problems: a survey

Axiomatic theory of bargaining with a fixed number of agents

Axiomatic theory of bargaining with a variable population: A survey of recent results

Bargaining problems with claims

Bargaining solutions and relative guarantees

Bargaining with Uncertain Disagreement Points

Borrowing-Proofness of the Lindahl Rule in Kolm Triangle Economies

CONCEPTS OF IMPLEMENTATION

Can everyone benefit from growth?

Chapter 35 Cooperative models of bargaining

article published in 1994

Children Crying at Birthday Parties. Why?

article by William Thomson published 18 May 2006 in Economic Theory

Claims problems and weighted generalizations of the Talmud rule

Claims problems and weighted generalizations of the Talmud rule

article published in 2003

Collective guarantee structures

article published in 1983

Consistency and its converse: an introduction

Consistent Solutions in Atomless Economies

Consistent Solutions to the Problem of Fair Division When Preferences Are Single-Peaked

Consistent extensions

Convergence under replication of rules to adjudicate conflicting claims

Cooperative Game Theory

Cooperative Theory of Bargaining I: Classical

Cooperative Theory of Bargaining II: Modern Development

article

Divide-and-permute

Economies with Public Goods: An Elementary Geometric Exposition

Egalitarian solutions and uncertain disagreement points

Eliciting production possibilities from a well-informed manager

article

Equity in exchange economies

Fair Allocation

Fair Allocation

Fair Allocation

Fair Allocation Rules

article published in 2011

For claims problems, another compromise between the proportional and constrained equal awards rules

article by William Thomson published November 2015 in Journal of Dynamics and Games

For claims problems, compromising between the proportional and constrained equal awards rules

article by William Thomson published 2 June 2015 in Economic Theory

GAME-THEORETIC ANALYSIS OF BANKRUPTCY AND TAXATION PROBLEMS: RECENT ADVANCES

Games of Fair Division

Group order preservation and the proportional rule for the adjudication of conflicting claims

Guarantee structures for problems of fair division

Guarantees and opportunities

Implementation of solutions to the problem of fair division when preferences are single-peaked

Information and incentives in labor-managed economies

Introduction to the Theory of Fair Allocation

Let them cheat!

Lorenz rankings of rules for the adjudication of conflicting claims

Monotonic extensions on economic domains

Monotonicity of bargaining solutions with respect to the disagreement point

Monotonicity properties of bargaining solutions when applied to economics

Monotonicity, stability and egalitarianism

Nash solution and uncertain disagreement points

Nash's Bargaining Solution and Utilitarian Choice Rules

article published in 1981

New variable-population paradoxes for resource allocation

No-Envy and Consistency in Economies with Indivisible Goods

Notions of equal, or equivalent, opportunities

ON THE AXIOMATICS OF RESOURCE ALLOCATION: INTERPRETING THE CONSISTENCY PRINCIPLE

On monotonicity in economies with indivisible goods

article published in 2003

On properties of division rules lifted by bilateral consistency

On the Fairness Literature: Comment

On the axiomatic method and its recent applications to game theory and resource allocation

On the existence of consistent rules to adjudicate conflicting claims: a constructive geometric approach

On the fair division of a heterogeneous commodity

On the non existence of envy-free and egalitarian-equivalent allocations in economies with indivisibilities

Operators for the adjudication of conflicting claims

Population-monotonic solutions to the problem of fair division when preferences are single-peaked

Problems of fair division and the Egalitarian solution

Refinements of the no-envy solution in economies with indivisible goods

Replication invariance of bargaining solutions

Resource-monotonic solutions to the problem of fair division when preferences are single-peaked

Reversal of asymmetries of allocation mechanisms under manipulation

Règles d'allocation monotones en ressources. Une revue de la littérature

Règles d'allocation monotones en ressources: Une revue de la littérature

Stability without Pareto-Optimality

The Consistency Principle

The Fair Division of a Fixed Supply Among a Growing Population

The Manipulability of Resource Allocation Mechanisms

The Replacement Principle in Economies with Single-Peaked Preferences

article published in 1997

The Young Person's Guide to Writing Economic Theory

The fair allocation of an indivisible good when monetary compensations are possible

The replacement principle in economies with indivisible goods

The replacement principle in public good economies with single-peaked preferences

The two-agent claims-truncated proportional rule has no consistent extension: A constructive proof

The walrasian mechanism from equal division is not monotonic with respect to variations in the number of consumers

Two characterizations of the Raiffa solution

Two derivations of the uniform rule and an application to bankruptcy

Two families of rules for the adjudication of conflicting claims

Welfare-domination under preference-replacement: A survey and open questions

fair allocation