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Efficiency in random allocation with ordinal rules

Samson Alva, Eun Jeong Heo and Vikram Manjunath

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Abstract: We study ordinal rules for allocating indivisible goods via lottery. Ordinality requires a rule to consider only how agents rank degenerate lotteries and may be necessitated by cognitive, informational, or as we show, incentive constraints. The limited responsiveness of ordinal rules to agents' preferences means that they can only satisfy welfare properties based on first order stochastic dominance, which is incomplete. We define a new efficiency concept for ordinal rules. While ordinality and efficiency together are incompatible with the usual notions of fairness and somewhat limit randomization, they do leave room for a rich class of rules. We demonstrate this through a characterization of all ordinal, efficient, strategy-proof, non-bossy, boundedly invariant, and neutral rules.

Date: 2024-01, Revised 2024-01
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