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Sequential Rules for House Allocation with Price Restrictions

Andersson, Tommy LU and Svensson, Lars-Gunnar LU (2015) In Working Paper / Department of Economics, School of Economics and Management, Lund University
Abstract
This paper considers a housing market with price restrictions. On such markets, the existence of a unique minimum rationing equilibrium price vector has been established for each preference profile on a general preference domain that contains almost all preference profiles. This vector can be used as a key ingredient in a direct and strategy-proof allocation mechanism. The main contribution of this paper is to provide two price sequences, one with increasing prices and one with decreasing prices, that both terminate to a minimal rationing equilibrium price vector in a finite number of steps. These sequences are demonstrated to play key-roles in an English auction and a Dutch auction, respectively, for the considered housing market with... (More)
This paper considers a housing market with price restrictions. On such markets, the existence of a unique minimum rationing equilibrium price vector has been established for each preference profile on a general preference domain that contains almost all preference profiles. This vector can be used as a key ingredient in a direct and strategy-proof allocation mechanism. The main contribution of this paper is to provide two price sequences, one with increasing prices and one with decreasing prices, that both terminate to a minimal rationing equilibrium price vector in a finite number of steps. These sequences are demonstrated to play key-roles in an English auction and a Dutch auction, respectively, for the considered housing market with price restrictions. (Less)
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Price sequence, auction rules, rationing, rationing equilibrium price
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Department of Economics, Lund University
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  author       = {{Andersson, Tommy and Svensson, Lars-Gunnar}},
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  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Working Paper}},
  number       = {{18}},
  publisher    = {{Department of Economics, Lund University}},
  series       = {{Working Paper / Department of Economics, School of Economics and Management, Lund University}},
  title        = {{Sequential Rules for House Allocation with Price Restrictions}},
  url          = {{http://swopec.hhs.se/lunewp/abs/lunewp2015_018.htm}},
  year         = {{2015}},
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