With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), access to insurance and coverage of preventive care services has been expanded. By removing the barrier of shared costs for preventive care, it is expected that an increase in utilization of preventive care services will reduce the cost of chronic diseases. Early detection and treatment is anticipated to be less costly than treatment at ...

Ginsburgh and Zang [1] consider a revenue sharing problem for the museum pass program, in which several museums jointly offer museum passes that allow visitors an unlimited access to participating museums in a certain period of time. We consider a cost sharing problem that can be regarded as the dual problem of the above revenue sharing problem. We assume that all museums are public goods and h...

In this paper we give a generalization of the serial costsharing rule de…ned by Moulin and Shenker (1992) for cost sharing problems. According to the serial cost sharing rule, agents with low demands of a good pay cost increments associated with low quantities in the production process of that good. This fact might not always be desirable for those agents, since those cost increments might be h...

The purpose of this study is to explore the design equity cooperation mechanism in sharing logistics service supply chain. This designs a two-echelon chain composed an urban joint distribution company and N companies. jointly established by companies based on specific shares investment. We establish models under revenue-sharing or cost-sharing contracts. Revenue-sharing factor parameter. When m...