Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/92862 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
ISER Discussion Paper No. 631
Publisher: 
Osaka University, Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka
Abstract: 
This note studies the allocation of heterogeneous commodities to agents whose private values for combinations of these commodities are monotonic by inclusion. This setting can accommodate the presence of complementarity and substitutability among the heterogeneous commodities. By using induction logic, we provide an elementary proof of Holmstrom's (1919) characterization of the Vickrey combinatorial auction as the unique efficient, strategy-proof, and individually rational allocation rule. Our proof method can also be applied to domains to which his proof cannot be.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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