Probabilistic assignment of objects: Characterizing the serial rule

Anna Bogomolnaia, Eun Jeong Heo

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Abstract

We study the problem of assigning a set of objects to a set of agents, when each agent receives one object and has strict preferences over the objects. In the absence of monetary transfers, we focus on the probabilistic rules, which take the ordinal preferences as input. We characterize the serial rule, proposed by Bogomolnaia and Moulin (2001) [2]: it is the only rule satisfying sd efficiency, sd no-envy, and bounded invariance. A special representation of feasible assignment matrices by means of consumption processes is the key to the simple and intuitive proof of our main result.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2072-2082
Number of pages11
JournalJournal of Economic Theory
Volume147
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 2012

Keywords

  • Bounded invariance
  • Consumption process
  • Probabilistic assignment
  • Sd efficiency
  • Sd no-envy
  • Serial rule

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