A characterization of Top Trading Cycles under trading networks

We consider an object reallocation problem within a specific class of trade restrictions. An agent can only receive the object of someone else connected to him, which is referred to as feasibility. We introduce a Network Augmented Top Trading Cycles (NTTC) mechanism. Our main result shows that a mec...

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Veröffentlicht in:Economics letters 2023-12, Vol.233, p.111383, Article 111383
1. Verfasser: Afacan, Mustafa Oğuz
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:We consider an object reallocation problem within a specific class of trade restrictions. An agent can only receive the object of someone else connected to him, which is referred to as feasibility. We introduce a Network Augmented Top Trading Cycles (NTTC) mechanism. Our main result shows that a mechanism is NTTC if and only if it is feasible, individually rational, constrained efficient, and strategy-proof. •We introduce a trading model with a specific class of trade restrictions.•We adapt the Top Trading Cycles mechanism to the problem.•The proposed mechanism is characterized.•The properties in the characterization are independent of each other.
ISSN:0165-1765
1873-7374
DOI:10.1016/j.econlet.2023.111383