Publication Type

Working Paper

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

12-2020

Abstract

We consider strategy-proof rules operating on a rich domain of preference profiles in a set up where multiple private goods have to be assigned to a set of agents with entitlements where preferences display satiation. We show that if the rule is in addition "desirable", in that it is tops-only, continuous, same-sided and individually rational with respect to the entitlements, then the preferences in the domain have to satisfy a variant of single-peakedness (referred to as smilattice single-peakedness). We also provide a converse of this main finding. It turns our that this domain coincides with the one already identified in a general set up with a public good. Finally we relate semilattice single-peaked domains to well-known restricted domains under which strategy-proof and desirable rules do exist.

Keywords

Strategy-proofness, semilattice single peakedness

Discipline

Economic Theory

Research Areas

Economic Theory

First Page

1

Last Page

34

Publisher

Osaka University, Institute of Social and Economic Research Discussion Paper No. 1112

City or Country

Osaka

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