Multi-Unit Assignment Under Dichotomous Preferences

ZEW Discussion Paper No. 18-052 // 2018
ZEW Discussion Paper No. 18-052 // 2018

Multi-Unit Assignment Under Dichotomous Preferences

I study the problem of allocating objects among agents without using money. Agents can receive several objects and have dichotomous preferences, meaning that they either consider objects to be acceptable or not. In this set-up, the egalitarian solution is more appealing than the competitive equilibrium with equal incomes because it is Lorenz dominant, unique in utilities, and group strategy- proof. Both solutions are disjoint.

Ortega, Josué (2018), Multi-Unit Assignment Under Dichotomous Preferences, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 18-052, Mannheim.

Authors Josué Ortega