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Consider two persons sharing a cab on the way home from a party. Typically, the one who gets off first either tries to avoid payment or pay some arbitrary amount (corresponding to whatever is left of cash) to the remaining passenger.
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Hougaard, J.L. (2009). Motivation and a Few Cases. In: An Introduction to Allocation Rules. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01828-2_1
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