Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/234924 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
ISER Discussion Paper No. 1112
Publisher: 
Osaka University, Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka
Abstract: 
We consider strategy-proof rules operating on a rich domain of preference profiles in a set up where multiple private goods have to be assigned to a set of agents with entitlements where preferences display satiation. We show that if the rule is in addition "desirable", in that it is tops-only, continuous, same-sided and individually rational with respect to the entitlements, then the preferences in the domain have to satisfy a variant of single-peakedness (referred to as semilattice single-peakedness). We also provide a converse of this main finding. It turns out that this domain coincides with the one already identified in a general set up with a public good. Finally, we relate semilattice single-peaked domains to well-known restricted domains under which strategy-proof and desirable rules do exist.
Subjects: 
Strategy-proofness
Semilattice Single-peakedness
JEL: 
D71
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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