Social orderings for the assignment of indivisible objects

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Maniquet, Francois
• 署名单位: Universite Catholique Louvain
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-0531
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2008.02.003
• 发表日期: 2008
• 页码: 199-215
• 关键词: Indivisible good; Social ordering function; Leximin

摘要

In the assignment problem of indivisible objects with money, we study social ordering functions which satisfy the requirement that social orderings should be independent of changes in preferences over infeasible bundles. We combine this axiom with efficiency, consistency and equity axioms. Our result is that the only social ordering function satisfying those axioms is the leximin function in money utility. (C) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.