Priorities in the location of multiple public facilities

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A collective decision problem is described by a set of agents, a profile of single-peaked preferences over the real line and a number k of public facilities to be located. We consider public facilities that do not suffer from congestion and are non-excludable. We provide a characterization of the class of rules satisfying Pareto-efficiency, object-population monotonicity and sovereignty. Each rule in the class is a priority rule that selects locations according to a predetermined priority ordering among interest groups. We characterize each of the subclasses of priority rules that respectively satisfy anonymity, hiding-proofness and strategy-proofness. In particular, we prove that a priority rule is strategy-proof if and only if it partitions the set of agents into a fixed hierarchy. Alternatively, any such rule can be viewed as a collection of fixed-populations generalized peak-selection median rules (Moulin, 1980), that are linked across populations, in a way that we describe.

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• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Discussion Papers ; No. 09-02

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Welfare Economics: General ; Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement ; Analysis of Collective Decision-Making: General ; Social Choice; Clubs; Committees; Associations ; Public Goods
• Thema: Multiple public facilities ; Priority rules ; Hierarchical rules ; Object-population-monotonicity ; Sovereignty ; Anonymity ; Strategy-proofness ; Generalized median rules ; Hiding-proofness ; Entscheidungstheorie ; Wahlverhalten ; Öffentliche Güter ; Pareto-Optimum ; Theorie

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Bochet, Olivier ; Gordon, Sidartha
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): University of Bern, Department of Economics
• (wo): Bern
• (wann): 2008

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/76753
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 20.09.2024, 08:22 MESZ