Optimal allocation without transfer payments

Games and Economic Behavior

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-20

  Chakravarty, Surajeet ^a   Kaplan, Todd R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Allocation; Mechanism design

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867289687     PISSN: 08998256     EISSN: 10902473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2012.08.006     Document Type: Article

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