On strategy-proofness and the salience of single-peakedness in a private goods allotment problem

• Main Authors: CHATTERJI, Shurojit, MASSO, Jordi, SERIZAWA, Shigehiro
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2025
• Subjects: Strategy-proofness; Multi-dimensional single-peakedness; Economic Theory
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/2784; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/3783/viewcontent/Strategy_proofness_pvoa_cc_by.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

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 and where preferences display satiation. We show that if the rule is in addition tops-only, same-sided and individually...