@techreport{Athanassoglou2011Efficient,
abstract = {Consider a collection of m indivisible objects to be allocated to n agents, where m \"{I} n. Each  agent falls in one of two distinct categories: either he (a) has a complete ordinal ranking over the set of individual objects, or (b) has a set of plausible benchmark von Neumann-Morgenstern (vNM) utility functions in whose non-negative span his true utility is known to lie. An allocation is undominated if there does not exist a preference-compatible profile of vNM utilities at which it is Pareto dominated by another feasible allocation. Given an undominated allocation, we use the tools of linear duality theory to construct a profile of vNM utilities at which it is ex-ante welfare maximizing. A finite set of preference-compatible vNM utility profiles is exhibited such that every undominated allocation is ex-ante welfare maximizing with respect to at least one of them. Given an arbitrary allocation, we provide an interpretation of the constructed vNM utilities as subgradients of a function which measures worst-case domination.},
address = {Milano},
author = {Stergios Athanassoglou},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {C61; D01; D60; 330; Random Assignment; Efficiency; Duality; Linear Programming},
language = {eng},
number = {11.2011},
publisher = {Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei},
title = {Efficient random assignment under a combination of ordinal and cardinal information on preferences},
type = {Nota di lavoro // Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei: Sustainable development},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/53374},
year = {2011}
}
