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Characterizing the top trading cycles rule for housing markets with lexicographic preferences when externalities are limited

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  • Bettina Klaus

    (University of Lausanne)

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We consider a housing market model with limited externalities where agents care both about their own consumption via demand preferences and about the agent who receives their endowment via supply preferences [we extend the associated lexicographic preference domains introduced in Klaus and Meo (Econ Theory 76:779– 811, 2023)]. If preferences are demand lexicographic, then our model extends the classical Shapley–Scarf housing market (Shapley and Scarf, J Math Econ 1:23–37, 1974) with strict preferences model. Our main result is a characterization of the corresponding top trading cycles (TTC) rule by individual rationality, pair efficiency, and strategy-proofness (Theorem 1), which extends that of Ekici (Theo Econ 19:551–564, 2024) from classical Shapley–Scarf housing markets with strict preferences to our model. Two further characterizations are immediately obtained by strengthening pair efficiency to either Pareto efficiency or pairwise stability (Corollaries 1 and 2). Finally, we show that as soon as we extend the preference domain to include demand lexicographic as well as supply lexicographic preferences (e.g., when preferences are separable), no rule satisfying individual rationality, pair efficiency, and strategy-proofness exists (Theorem 2).

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  • Bettina Klaus, 2025. "Characterizing the top trading cycles rule for housing markets with lexicographic preferences when externalities are limited," Social Choice and Welfare, Springer;The Society for Social Choice and Welfare, vol. 65(1), pages 1-26, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sochwe:v:65:y:2025:i:1:d:10.1007_s00355-024-01556-9
    DOI: 10.1007/s00355-024-01556-9
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