Arbeitspapier

On the constrained efficiency of strategy-proof random assignment

We study the random assignment of indivisible objects among a set of agents with strict preferences. Random Serial Dictatorship is known to be only ex-post efficient and there exist mechanisms which Pareto-dominate it ex ante. However, we show that there is no mechanism that is likewise (i) strategy-proof and (ii) boundedly invariant, and that Paretodominates Random Serial Dictatorship. Moreover, the same holds for all mechanisms that are ex-post efficient, strategy-proof, and boundedly invariant: no such mechanism is dominated by any other mechanism that is likewise strategy-proof and boundedly invariant.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: WZB Discussion Paper ; No. SP II 2023-202

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
Analysis of Collective Decision-Making: General
Thema
random assignment
strategy-proofness
ex-post efficiency
bounded invariance

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Basteck, Christian
Ehlers, Lars H.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB)
(wo)
Berlin
(wann)
2023

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:46 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Basteck, Christian
  • Ehlers, Lars H.
  • Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB)

Entstanden

  • 2023

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