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Designing Mechanisms to Make Welfare-Improving Strategies Focal
2013
Social Science Research Network
JEL classification: C78 C91 C92 D61 D63 Keywords: Dictatorship Indifference Matching Welfare Efficiency Experiments Many institutions use matching algorithms to allocate resources to individuals. Examples include the assignment of doctors, students and military cadets to hospitals, schools and branches, respectively. Oftentimes, agents' ordinal preferences are highly correlated, motivating the use of mechanisms that provide agents with channels through which they can express some cardinal
doi:10.2139/ssrn.2599701
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