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- Marcel Boyer
- Michel Moreaux
- Michel Truchon
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In order to choose the proper size of an infrastructure and to save as much as possible on investment costs, it is necessary for the responsible party (the Centre in the language of this report) to have access to information that is typically known only by some agents or partners who may use their privileged information in a strategic way. These problems are endemic to all societies, alliances, partnerships and public or private businesses. We consider in this report three specific but important contexts. In the first one, a business or alliance with several divisions or partners want to set up a common cost sharing method that induces the division managers or partners to contribute to the minimisation or at least the reduction of the common costs. In the second and third cases, the sharing of common costs appears in contexts where the division managers are the only ones informed of crucial elements for the determination of the firm's optimal program of activities. It must then induce the divisions or partners to reveal their privileged information. In spite of the significant difficulties in analysing those problems, the methodological approach that we propose leads to solutions that are often imperfect but transparent and informative. Afin de choisir la bonne taille d'une infrastructure et d'économiser autant que possible sur les coûts d'investissement, il faut en général au responsable (le Centre dans le langage de ce rapport) certaines informations qui lui font typiquement défaut et pour lesquelles il doit s'en remettre à des agents ou partenaires, qui voudront utiliser leurs informations privilégiées de manière stratégique. Ce problème est endémique à toute société, toute alliance, tout partenariat et toute entreprise publique ou privée. Nous considérons dans ce rapport trois contextes spécifiques particulièrement importants. Dans le premier, une entreprise ou une alliance d'entreprises avec plusieurs divisions veut mettre en place une méthode de répartition des coûts communs qui incite les chefs de division ou les partenaires à contribuer à la minimisation ou du moins à la réduction de ces coûts communs. Dans les deuxième et troisième cas, le problème du partage des coûts communs se pose dans des contextes où les responsables de divisions sont les seuls à connaître certaines informations cruciales pour la détermination du programme optimal de l'entreprise ou l'alliance. L'entreprise doit alors inciter les divisions ou partenaires à révéler leurs informations privilégiées. Nous proposons une approche méthodologique qui permet d'obtenir des solutions souvent imparfaites mais du moins transparentes et éclairantes.
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