Strategy-proof partitioning

B-Tier
Journal: Games and Economic Behavior
Year: 2012
Volume: 76
Issue: 1
Pages: 285-300

Authors (2)

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Abstract

We consider the problem of choosing a partition of a set of objects by a set of agents. The private information of each agent is a strict ordering over the set of partitions of the objects. A social choice function chooses a partition given the reported preferences of the agents. We impose a natural restriction on the allowable set of strict orderings over the set of partitions, which we call an intermediate domain. Our main result is a complete characterization of strategy-proof and tops-only social choice functions in the intermediate domain. We also show that a social choice function is strategy-proof and unanimous if and only if it is a meet social choice function.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:eee:gamebe:v:76:y:2012:i:1:p:285-300
Journal Field
Theory
Author Count
2
Added to Database
2026-01-26