Bidding for Envy-Freeness: A Procedural Approach to n-Player Fair Division Problems



Bidding for envy-freeness

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Table 8. Players’ valuations of bundles after the second round of compensations

B4           B1           B3           B2

P1

[50

50

50

45

P2

40

[6Ô]

55

65

P3

65

0

[65]

65

P4

60

50

50

[60]

30

0

40

25


Graph G~


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4)


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tion all compensations must be returned, and the compensation procedure is
restarted. Note that the bid matrix after the required permutation of columns
is now given by Table 1. As we know this new assignment is utilitarian and the
compensation procedure with ex-post payments will lead to an envy-free out-
come.

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