Optimal Voting Rules

Alex Gershkov, Benny Moldovanu () and Xianwen Shi

Working Papers from University of Toronto, Department of Economics

Abstract: We study dominant strategy incentive compatible (DIC) and deterministic mechanisms in a social choice setting with several alternatives. The agents are privately informed about their preferences, and have single-crossing utility functions. Monetary transfers are not feasible. We use an equivalence between deterministic, DIC mechanisms and generalized median voter schemes to construct the constrained-efficient, optimal mechanism for an utilitarian planner. Optimal schemes for other welfare criteria such as, say, a Rawlsian maximin can be analogously obtained.

Keywords: Mechanism Design; Voting; Dominant Strategy; Utilitarian (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D71 D72 D82 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: Unknown pages
Date: 2013-08-07
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cdm, nep-cta, nep-mic, nep-pol and nep-upt
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