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Strategy-proof allocation of objects : A characterization result

Andersson, Tommy LU and Svensson, Lars Gunnar LU (2024) In Mathematical Social Sciences 128. p.1-5
Abstract

This paper considers an allocation problem with a finite number of objects and unit-demand agents. The main result is a characterization of a class of strategy-proof price mechanisms on a general domain where preferences over pairs of objects and houses are rational, monotonic, and continuous. A mechanism belongs to this class if and only if the price space is restricted in a special way and, given this restriction, that the mechanism selects minimal equilibrium prices.

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Characterization, House allocation, Multi-object auction, Strategy-proofness
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Mathematical Social Sciences
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128
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0165-4896
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10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2023.12.004
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