Article ID: | iaor2003678 |
Country: | Germany |
Volume: | 30 |
Issue: | 3 |
Start Page Number: | 421 |
End Page Number: | 435 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2001 |
Journal: | International Journal of Game Theory |
Authors: | Klaus B., Miyagawa E. |
We consider a problem of allocating indivisible objects when agents may desire to consume more than one object and no monetary transfers are allowed. We are interested in allocation rules that satisfy desirable properties from an economic and social point of view. In addition to strategy-proofness and Pareto efficiency, we consider consistency and two solidarity properties (replacement-domination and population-monotonicity). In most of the cases, these properties are satisfied only by serially dictatorial rules.