| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7349291 | Economics Letters | 2018 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
We study ex-ante priority respecting (ex-ante stable) lotteries in the context of object allocation under thick priorities. We show that ex-ante stability as a fairness condition is very demanding: Only few agent-object pairs have a positive probability of being matched in an ex-ante stable assignment. We interpret our result as an impossibility result. With ex-ante stability, one cannot go much beyond randomly breaking ties and implementing a (deterministically) stable matching with respect to the broken ties.
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Authors
Jan Christoph Schlegel,