Strategy-proof assignment of multiple resources

A-Tier
Journal: Journal of Economic Theory
Year: 2015
Volume: 159
Issue: PA
Pages: 137-162

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Abstract

We examine the strategy-proof allocation of multiple resources; an application is the assignment of packages of tasks, workloads, and compensations among the members of an organization. In the domain of multidimensional single-peaked preferences, we find that any allocation mechanism obtained by maximizing a separably concave function over a polyhedral extension of the set of Pareto-efficient allocations is strategy-proof. Moreover, these are the only strategy-proof, unanimous, consistent, and resource-monotonic mechanisms. These mechanisms generalize the parametric rationing mechanisms (Young, 1987), some of which date back to the Babylonian Talmud.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:eee:jetheo:v:159:y:2015:i:pa:p:137-162
Journal Field
Theory
Author Count
2
Added to Database
2026-01-25