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来源类型 | Discussion paper |
规范类型 | 论文 |
来源ID | DP10908 |
DP10908 Trading Votes for Votes. A Decentralized Matching Algorithm | |
Alessandra Casella; Thomas R Palfrey | |
发表日期 | 2015-10-25 |
出版年 | 2015 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | Vote-trading is common practice in committees and group decision-making. Yet we know very little about its properties. Inspired by the similarity between the logic of sequential rounds of pairwise vote-trading and matching algorithms, we explore three central questions that have parallels in the matching literature: (1) Does a stable allocation of votes always exists? (2) Is it reachable through a decentralized algorithm? (3) What welfare properties does it possess? We prove that a stable allocation exists and is always reached in a finite number of trades, for any number of voters and issues, for any separable preferences, and for any rule on how trades are prioritized. Its welfare properties however are guaranteed to be desirable only under specific conditions. A laboratory experiment confirms that stability has predictive power on the vote allocation achieved via sequential pairwise trades, but lends only weak support to the dynamic algorithm itself. |
主题 | Public Economics |
关键词 | Algorithms Matching Vote trading Voting |
URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp10908 |
来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/539738 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Alessandra Casella,Thomas R Palfrey. DP10908 Trading Votes for Votes. A Decentralized Matching Algorithm. 2015. |
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