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Up methods in the allocation of indivisibilities when preferences are single-peaked

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Carmen Herrero () (Department of Economics, Universidad de Alicante)
Ricardo Martinez () (Department of Economics, Universidad de Alicante & Department of Economics, Universidad Pablo de Olavide)

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We consider allocation problems with indivisible goods when agents' preferences are single-peaked. We propose natural rules (called up methods) to solve such a class of problems. We analyzed the properties those methods satisfy and we provide a characterization of them. We also prove that these methods can be interpreted as extensions to the indivisible case of the so-called equal-distance rule.

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Paper provided by Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Department of Economics in its series Working Papers with number 06.30.

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Keywords: Allocation problem; indivisibilities; single-peaked preferences; standard of comparison; up method.;

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  4. Thomson, W., 1998. "Consistency and its Converse: an Introduction," RCER Working Papers 448, University of Rochester - Center for Economic Research (RCER).
  5. Carmen Herrero & Antonio Villar, 2002. "Sustainability in bankruptcy problems," TOP: An Official Journal of the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research, Springer, vol. 10(2), pages 261-273, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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