Characterizing Vickrey allocation rule by anonymity

We consider the problem of allocating finitely many units of an indivisible good among a group of agents when each agent receives at most one unit of the good and pays a non-negative price. For example, imagine that a government allocates a fixed number of licenses to private firms, or that it distr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ashlagi, Itai, Serizawa, Shigehiro
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Springer-Verlag 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/64927
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2124-738X