Consistent House Allocation

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Serval ID
serval:BIB_1F4A48A3CAFC
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
Collection
Publications
Title
Consistent House Allocation
Journal
Economic Theory
Author(s)
Ehlers L., Klaus B.
ISSN
0938-2259
Publication state
Published
Issued date
2007
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
30
Number
3
Pages
561-574
Language
english
Abstract
In practice we often face the problem of assigning indivisible objects (e.g., schools, housing, jobs, offices) to agents (e.g., students, homeless, workers, professors) when monetary compensations are not possible. We show that a rule that satisfies consistency, strategy-proofness, and efficiency must be an efficient generalized priority rule; i.e., it must adapt to an acyclic priority structure, except - maybe - for up to three agents in each object's priority ordering.
Keywords
Indivisible objects, Priority structure, Consistency, Strategy-proofness
Web of science
Open Access
Yes
Create date
13/04/2010 15:20
Last modification date
20/08/2019 13:55
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