On obvious strategy-proofness and single-peakedness

R. Pablo Arribillaga, Jordi Masso and Alejandro Neme ()

Journal of Economic Theory, 2020, vol. 186, issue C

Abstract: We characterize the set of all obviously strategy-proof and onto social choice functions on the domain of single-peaked preferences. Since obvious strategy-proofness implies strategy-proofness, and the set of strategy-proof and onto social choice functions on this domain coincides with the class of generalized median voter schemes, we focus on this class. We identify a condition on generalized median voter schemes for which the following characterization holds. A generalized median voter scheme is obviously strategy-proof if and only if it satisfies the increasing intersection property. Our proof is constructive; for each generalized median voter scheme that satisfies the increasing intersection property we define an extensive game form that implements it in obviously dominant strategies.

Keywords: Obvious strategy-proofness; Generalized median voters; Single-peakedness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2020.104992

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