Workshop "Mechanism Design Without Transfers"

Mechanism design without transfers considers the case when outcomes are allocations of objects to agents and do not involve monetary transfers between the agents. There are various legal, ethical, or practical reasons motivating this restriction. The absence of transfers limits the extent to which mechanism design goals can be achieved. The literature thus focuses on proving the existence of and constructing allocations with economically desirable properties rather than incentive-compatible mechanisms implementing those. Indeed, such mechanisms often fail to exist. Recently, this line of work has been picked up by theoretical computer scientists since it gives rise to various computational questions. This workshop focuses on fair division, matching, and other allocation problems without transfers.

Topics: This workshop is directed at the participants in the Trimester Program "Advances in Mechanism Design". It is not possible to apply only for this workshop.