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On Maximum Weighted Nash Welfare for Binary Valuations

Theoretical Economics 2022-04-26 v2 Computer Science and Game Theory

Abstract

We consider the problem of fairly allocating indivisible goods to agents with weights representing their entitlements. A natural rule in this setting is the maximum weighted Nash welfare (MWNW) rule, which selects an allocation maximizing the weighted product of the agents' utilities. We show that when agents have binary valuations, a specific version of MWNW is resource- and population-monotone, satisfies group-strategyproofness, and can be implemented in polynomial time.

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@article{arxiv.2204.03803,
  title  = {On Maximum Weighted Nash Welfare for Binary Valuations},
  author = {Warut Suksompong and Nicholas Teh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.03803},
  year   = {2022}
}
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