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Gershkov, Alex; Moldovanu, Benny und Shi, Xianwen (7. August 2013): Optimal Voting Rules. SFB/TR 15 Discussion Paper No. 417 [PDF, 279kB]

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Abstract

We study dominant strategy incentive compatible (DIC) and deterministic mechanisms in a social choice setting with several alternatives. The agents are privately informed about their preferences, and have single-crossing utility functions. Monetary transfers are not feasible. We use an equivalence between deterministic, DIC mechanisms and generalized median voter schemes to construct the constrained-efficient, optimal mechanism for an utilitarian planner. Optimal schemes for other welfare criteria such as, say, a Rawlsian maximin can be analogously obtained.

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