A Pseudo-Market Approach to Allocation with Priorities
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We propose a pseudo-market mechanism for no-monetary-transfer allocation of indivisible objects based on priorities such as those in school choice. Agents are given token money, face priority-specific prices, and buy utility-maximizing random assignments. The mechanism is asymptotically incentive compatible, and the resulting assignments are fair and constrained Pareto efficient. Aanund Hylland & Richard Zeckhauser (1979)'s position-allocation problem is a special case of our framework, and our results on incentives and fairness are also new in their classical setting.
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He, Yinghua, Miralles, Antonio, Pycia, Marek, et al.. "A Pseudo-Market Approach to Allocation with Priorities." American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 10, no. 3 (2018) American Economic Association: 272-314. https://doi.org/10.1257/mic.20150259.