PROPORTIONALITY AND NON-MANIPULABILITY IN BANKRUPTCY PROBLEMS

Juan Moreno-Ternero

International Game Theory Review (IGTR), 2006, vol. 08, issue 01, 127-139

Abstract: We explore the relationship between proportionality and manipulation (via merging or splitting agents' claims) in bankruptcy problems. We provide an alternative proof to the well-known result that, in an unrestricted domain, immunity to manipulation is equivalent to requiring proportional division. We show that this result also holds for restricted (but sufficiently rich) domains, such as the domain of simple problems and the domain of zero-normalized problems. Finally, we characterize two adjustments of the proportional rule by combining non-manipulabilty on these domains and the usual axioms of independence of claims truncation and composition from minimal rights.

Keywords: Bankruptcy problems; proportional allocation; manipulation via merging or splitting; axiomatic characterizations; JEL Classification Code: D63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B4 C0 C6 C7 D5 D7 M2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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