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Unfolding the mystery of false-name-proofness

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We study the general problem of public choice. We consider environments where agents’ identities may not be observable. A “rule” associates a preference profile with an alternative. An agent may create fictitious identities and submit multiple preference relations under them. We study false-name-proofness, the requirement that no agent should ever gain via such operations. Our main result is that if a rule is anonymous, strategy-proof, and population monotonic, then it is false-name-proof; if the preference domain contains only strict preference relations, the converse also holds.

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  • Bu, Nanyang, 2013. "Unfolding the mystery of false-name-proofness," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 120(3), pages 559-561.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:120:y:2013:i:3:p:559-561
    DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2013.06.011
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    Keywords

    Public choice; False-name-proofness; Anonymity; Strategy-proofness; Population monotonicity;
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    JEL classification:

    • D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
    • D70 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - General

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