Güth, Werner (Director Strategic Interaction Group, Max-Planck-Institute of Economics, Jena; Professor of Economics, University of Jena)

2010-014

Auctions

Envy-Freeness

Fair Division

Procedural fairness

Although one may hope to achieve equality of stated profits without enforcing it, one may not trust in such voluntary equality seeking and rather try to impose rules (of bidding) guaranteeing it. Our axiomatic approach is based on envy-free net trades according to bids which, together with the equality requirement, characterize the first-prize auction and fair division game.