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Jul, 2002

Toward general impossibility theorems in pure exchange economies

SOCIAL CHOICE AND WELFARE
  • Miki Kato
  • ,
  • Shinji Ohseto

Volume
19
Number
3
First page
659
Last page
664
Language
English
Publishing type
Research paper (scientific journal)
DOI
10.1007/s003550100143
Publisher
SPRINGER-VERLAG

We study the possibility of strategy-proof and efficient mechanisms in pure exchange economies. In his remarkable paper, Zhou (1991) establishes an elegant impossibility result: there is no strategy-proof, efficient, and nondictatorial mechanism in the two-agent case. He conjectures that there is no strategy-proof, efficient, and "non-inversely-dictatorial" mechanism in the case of three or more agents. However, we discover some counterexamples to his conjecture in the case of four or more agents. We present a new interesting open question: Is there any strategy-proof, efficient, and "non-alternately-dictatorial" mechanism?

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s003550100143
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000177456700014&DestApp=WOS_CPL
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  • DOI : 10.1007/s003550100143
  • ISSN : 0176-1714
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000177456700014

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