Secure Implementation in Queueing Problems

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ABSTRACT

This paper studies secure implementability (T. Saijo, T. Sjostrom and T. Yamato, Secure Implementation,Theoretical Economics, Vol. 2, No. 3, 2007, pp. 203-229) in queueing problems. Our main result shows that the social choice function satisfies strategy-proofness and strong non-bossiness (Z. Ritz, Restricted Domains, Arrow-Social Welfare Functions and Noncorruptible and Non-Manipulable Social Choice Correspondences: The Case of Private Alternatives,Mathematical Social Science, Vol. 4, No. 2, 1983, pp. 155-179), both of which are necessary for secure imple- mentation, if and only if it is constant on the domains that satisfy weak indifference introduced in this paper. Weak in- difference is weaker than minimal richness (Y. Fujinaka and T. Wakayama, Secure Implementation in Economies with Indivisible Objects and Money, Economics Letters, Vol. 100, No. 1, 2008, pp. 91-95). Our main result illustrates that secure implementation is too difficult in queueing problems since many reasonable domains satisfy weak indifference, for example, convex domains.

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K. Nishizaki, "Secure Implementation in Queueing Problems," Theoretical Economics Letters, Vol. 2 No. 5, 2012, pp. 561-565. doi: 10.4236/tel.2012.25103.

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