【Micro Seminar】Equal Responsibility in the Queueing Problem
2026/06/09
研討會日期 : 2026-06-09
時間 : 14:00
主講人 : Professor Ching-Jen Sun (孫慶仁)
地點 : Conference Room B110
主持人 : Professor Chih-Chun Yang
演講者簡介 : Dr. Ching-Jen Sun received his Ph.D. in Economics from the Ohio State University in 2008. He is currently a Professor of Economics at Deakin University. His research interests are Game Theory and Industrial Organization.
演講摘要 : In the context of the queueing problem, we investigate fair compensation through the lens of individual responsibility. Our fairness approach is grounded in the principle that certain groups of agents bear equal responsibility for changes in economic environments and should therefore be affected by the same magnitude. To formalize this idea, we introduce equal responsibility axioms, which require that any change in an agent's unit waiting cost must lead to a uniform adjustment in the transfers of either all preceding agents or all following agents. We propose a family of equally responsible transfer rules and provide characterizations of this family based on efficiency, Pareto indifference, equal treatment of equals, and either preceding-cost equal responsibility or following-cost equal responsibility. To further refine our analysis, we impose additional axioms that define notable subfamilies, specifically the linear transfer rules and the convex transfer rules, which capture different ways of structuring compensation adjustments. Furthermore, within this family, we identify three distinguished transfer rules - the minimal transfer rule, the maximal transfer rule, and the average transfer rule - each offering a unique perspective on the distribution of responsibility and fairness in queueing.
