Weakly Fair Allocations and Strategy-Proofness
Författare
Summary, in English
This paper investigates the problem of allocating two types of indivisible objects among a group of agents when a priority-order must be respected and only restricted monetary transfers are allowed. Since the existence of a fair (as in envy-free) allocation is not generally guaranteed, due to the restrictions on the money transfers, the concept of fairness is weakened, and a new concept of fairness is introduced. This concept is called weak fairness. This paper defines an allocation rule that implements weakly fair allocations and demonstrates that it is coalitionally strategy-proof. In fact, under a mild regulatory condition and quasi-linear utility functions, it is demonstrated that this is the only coalitionally strategy-proof allocation rule that implements a weakly fair allocation.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2008
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
321-338
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Review of Economic Design
Volym
11
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Springer
Ämne
- Economics
Nyckelord
- Indivisibles
- fairness
- weak fairness
- strategy-pr
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1434-4742