Obvious Dominance and Random Priority
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چکیده
In environments without transfers, such as refugee resettlement, school choice, organ transplants, course allocation, and voting, we show that Random Priority is the unique mechanism that is obviously strategy-proof, Pareto efficient, and symmetric; hence providing an explanation for the popularity of this mechanism. We also construct the full class of obviously strategy-proof mechanisms, and explain why some of them are more popular than others via a natural strengthening of obvious strategy-proofness.
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