Random assignment: Redefining the serial rule

Anna Bogomolnaia

Journal of Economic Theory, 2015, vol. 158, issue PA, 308-318

Abstract: We provide a new, welfarist, interpretation of the well-known Serial rule in the random assignment problem, strikingly different from previous attempts to define or axiomatically characterize this rule.

Keywords: Random assignment; Serial rule; Leximin (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C78 D63 D71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2015.04.008

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