Strategy-Proof Multi-Issue Mediation: An Application to Online Dispute Resolution

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Kesten, Onur; Ozyurt, Selcuk
• 署名单位: University of Sydney; York University - Canada
• 刊物名称: MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0025-1909
• DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2023.00383
• 发表日期: 2025
• 关键词: Mechanism design; ECONOMICS; game theory and bargaining theory; online dispute resolution; e-negotiation systems; Mediation

摘要

Mediation (assisted negotiation) is the preferred alternative dispute resolution approach that has given rise to a multibillion-dollar industry worldwide. Online dispute resolution (ODR) providers rely heavily on mechanized e-negotiation systems. Inspired by their structured negotiation systems, we follow a market design approach and develop a tractable framework in search of strategy-proof, efficient, and individually rational mediation mechanisms. We characterize the full family of such mechanisms and the domains of preferences in which they exist. A necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of such protocols is the so-called quid pro quo property; a weak condition that formulates preferences for compromise solutions.