caa a22 4500 463173902 CHVBK 20180406164820.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00355-006-0195-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00355-006-0195-y Leroux Justin Institut d'Économie Appliquée, HEC Montréal, 3000 chemin de la côte-Sainte-Catherine, H3T 2A7, Montréal, QC, Canada aut Cooperative production under diminishing marginal returns: interpreting fixed-path methods [Elektronische Daten] [Justin Leroux] Fixed-path methods (FPMs) were introduced to manage situations where several individuals jointly operate a single technology (see Math Soc Sci 44:145-154 (2002)). In the production context, they consist in allocating marginal increments of output according to a proportions vector which changes along an arbitrary path. While very appealing from an incentives viewpoint under diminishing marginal returns, the asymmetry of these methods lacks solid economic interpretation. We provide such an interpretation by considering a situation where the technology to be shared results from the aggregation of private production processes. We propose a group-strategyproof mechanism under which no single agent wishes to secede from the partnership: the inverse marginal product proportions mechanism. It is the only FPM satisfying autarkic individual rationality; its path is uniquely determined by the technological contributions of the agents. Springer-Verlag, 2006 Social Choice and Welfare Springer-Verlag 29/1(2007-07-01), 35-53 0176-1714 29:1<35 2007 29 355 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00355-006-0195-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00355-006-0195-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Leroux Justin Institut d'Économie Appliquée, HEC Montréal, 3000 chemin de la côte-Sainte-Catherine, H3T 2A7, Montréal, QC, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Social Choice and Welfare Springer-Verlag 29/1(2007-07-01), 35-53 0176-1714 29:1<35 2007 29 355 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer