Axioms for Deferred Acceptance.

The deferred acceptance algorithm is often used to allocate indivisible objects when monetary transfers are not allowed. We provide two characterizations of agent-proposing deferred acceptance allocation rules. Two new axioms—individually rational monotonicity and weak Maskin monotonicity—are essent...

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Published in:	Econometrica Vol. 78; no. 2; pp. 633 - 654
Main Authors:	Kojima, Fuhito, Manea, Mihai
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell March 2010
Subjects:	Monotonic functions Resource allocation > Mathematical models Algorithms
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