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Type: | Conference paper |
Title: | Groves mechanisms and welfare bounds in a variable population setting |
Author: | Yengin, D. |
Citation: | Proceedings of the SED 2008 5th Conference on Economic Design, 2008: www1-28 |
Publisher: | Society for Economic Design |
Publisher Place: | USA |
Issue Date: | 2008 |
Conference Name: | SED Conference on Economic Design (5th : 2008 : Michigan) |
Statement of Responsibility: | Duygu Yengin |
Abstract: | In the problem of allocating indivisible goods when monetary transfers are possible, if prefer- ences are quasilinear, then the Groves mechanisms are the only mechanisms which assign indivisible goods in an e¢ cient way and induce the agents to report their true preferences. We characterize the class of Groves mechanisms that respect the identical-preferences lower-bound: each agent should be at least as well o¤ as in an hypothetical economy where all agents have the same preference as hers, no agent envies another, and the budget is balanced. We also study the implications on Groves mechanisms of imposing variable population axioms together with welfare bounds. |
Keywords: | allocation of indivisible objects and money imposition of tasks the Grovesmechanisms the identical-preferences lower-bound the stand-alone lower-bound k-fairness population monotonicity |
Description (link): | http://sites.google.com/site/economicdesign2008/ |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest Economics publications |
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