Strategy-proof location of public facilities

B-Tier
Journal: Games and Economic Behavior
Year: 2018
Volume: 112
Issue: C
Pages: 21-48

Authors (2)

Alcalde-Unzu, Jorge (not in RePEc) Vorsatz, Marc (Universidad Nacional de Educat...)

Score contribution per author:

1.005 = (α=2.01 / 2 authors) × 1.0x B-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

Consider the problem of locating a public facility taking into account the agents' preferences. To construct strategy-proof social choice rules, we propose a new preference domain that allows agents to have any single-peaked or any single-dipped preference on the location of the facility such that the peak/dip of the preference is in her own location. We characterize all strategy-proof rules in this general framework and study the conditions under which this family of strategy-proof rules includes non-dictatorial rules that have more than two alternatives in the range or that are Pareto efficient. Finally, we characterize for some focal cases all strategy-proof and Pareto efficient rules.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:eee:gamebe:v:112:y:2018:i:c:p:21-48
Journal Field
Theory
Author Count
2
Added to Database
2026-01-29