Cardiff Economics Working Papers Helmuts Azacis Double Implementation in a Market for Indivisible Goods with a Price Constraint

I consider the problem of assigning agents to indivisible objects, in which each agent pays a price for his object and all prices sum to a given constant. The objective is to select an assignment-price pair that is envyfree with respect to the agents’ true preferences. I propose a simple mechanism whereby agents announce valuations for all objects and an envy-free allocation is selected with respect to these announced preferences. I prove that the proposed mechanism implements both in Nash and strong Nash equilibrium the set of true envy-free allocations. Journal of Economic Literature classification numbers: C78, C71, D78