Axiomatic and Strategic Analysis of Resource Allocation Rules

资源分配规则的公理和战略分析

• 批准号: 9212557
• 负责人: William Thomson
• 金额: $ 14.52万
• 依托单位: University of Rochester
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1992
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1992-11-01 至 1996-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9212557&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Axiomatic; Strategic; Analysis; Resource; Allocation

The objective of this project is to construct allocation rules satisfying appealing properties. Special attention is paid to rules that are equitable and immune to manipulative behavior. The project studies bargaining, taxation, allocation of private goods, allocation of public goods, and allocation of indivisible goods. In general, economists do not pay enough attention to normative issues of fairness and many important questions that the general public cares about have been neglected for too long: Who should pay for disaster relief? How should the cost of military alliances be distributed? Are the salaries of executives justified? How should the "peace dividend" be allocated? Is the income disparity between industrialized countries and countries of the Third World acceptable? The most convincing argument one can make in favor of an allocation rule is that it satisfies appealing properties and, in this research, properties of rules, not the rules themselves, are the starting point. Several kinds of properties will be analyzed. Monotonicity properties state that all agents should be affected in the same direction by changes in their environment; these changes can be in resources, technology, population, etc. Consistency properties guarantee that the recommendation made by a rule is never contradicted by the recommendation it makes when some of the agents leave the scene with their payoffs. The converse property allows us to deduce the desirability of a decision for a whole economy on the basis of its desirability for small subgroups. Strategy-proofness says that the rule provides agents the incentive to tell the truth about the data over which they have control. Studying the manipulability and the implementability of rules should indeed be components of any comprehensive research program on mechanism design. This study is very important because it will help trace out the boundary between which combinations of social objectives are compatible and which are not, taking into account the strategic behavior of agents.

本项目的目标是构建分配规则 满足吸引人的特性。 特别注意 公平且不受操纵行为影响的规则。 的 项目研究谈判、税收、私人物品的分配， 公共物品的分配和不可分割物品的分配。 总体而言，经济学家对规范性关注不够 公平问题和许多重要问题， 公众关心的问题被忽视太久了：谁应该支付 用于救灾？ 军事同盟的成本应该如何 分布式？ 高管的薪酬合理吗？ 应该如何 分配“和平红利”？ 收入差距是否 工业化国家和第三世界国家 可以接受吗？ 最有说服力的论点是， 规则是它满足吸引人的属性，在这个 研究，规则的属性，而不是规则本身，是 起点 将分析几种性质。 单调性属性声明所有代理都应受到影响， 环境的变化;这些变化 可以在资源、技术、人口等方面保持一致 属性保证由规则提出的建议是 从来没有与它所提出的建议相矛盾， 特工们带着他们的钱离开现场 匡威性质 可以让我们推断出一个决定对整体的可取性 经济的基础上，其可取的小分组。 防策略性是指规则为代理人提供了激励， 说出他们所控制的数据的真相。 研究规则的可操作性和可执行性 应该是任何综合研究计划的组成部分 关于机制设计。 这项研究非常重要，因为它将 帮助我们找出 目标是兼容的，哪些是不兼容的，考虑到 特工的战略行为