Article ID: | iaor19991797 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 44 |
Issue: | 6 |
Start Page Number: | 850 |
End Page Number: | 858 |
Publication Date: | Jun 1998 |
Journal: | Management Science |
Authors: | Haviv Moshe, Ritov Ya'acov |
Keywords: | queues: theory |
Externalities are the (marginal) costs that a user of a common resource imposes on others. We introduce the efficient measure of tangible externalities that are the costs that a user imposes on others while being served. Then, for a single server queueing system under various service disciplines, we compute the expected externalities and the expected tangible externalities conditioning on the length of the service requirement.