Publication Type

Working Paper

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

2-2017

Abstract

We address a standard random assignment problem (Bogomolnaia and Moulin (2001)) and search forsd-strategy-proof, sd-efficient and sd-envy-free or equal-treatment-of-equals rules.Our main result is that on a connected domain (Sato (2013)),if there exists a rule satisfying these axioms, this domain is endowed with a restricted tier structure.Furthermore, we show that, on such a domain, the Probabilistic Serial rule is the unique rulethat satisfies these axioms.As an extension, we introduce outside options to the model, and establish the same characterizations.

Keywords

Random Assignment, sd-strategy-proof, sd-efficient, sd-envy-free, equal-treatment-of-equals

Discipline

Economic Theory

Research Areas

Economic Theory

First Page

1

Last Page

41

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Authors

Previous Versions

Aug 11 2016

Comments

Also presented at ICSE '06: 28th International Conference on Software Engineering: 20-28 May 2006, Shanghai, China

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