The Cost of Ordinality
The Cost of Ordinality
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10.2139/ssrn.2460511
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2014-06
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M. Pycia
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M. Pycia
School districts and other institutions allocating objects without the use of transfers tend to rely on mechanisms that only elicit agents’ ordinal preferences. The present note shows that the welfare loss imposed by only eliciting ordinal preferences can be arbitrarily large.