In allocating goods with no use of monetary transfers, random allocation mechanisms can be designed in order to elicit information on preference intensities. I study the nontransfer allocation of two ex-ante identical objects under Bayesian incentive compatibility, with symmetric agents and independent private valuations. I …nd the ex-ante utilitarian-optimal mechanism, in which the probability...

Agricultural activities play an important role in shaping landscape, particular, Lithuania, where agricultural land accounts for more than half of the surface land. These landscape services are used by people as public goods, contributing to societal welfare. The aim this study is assess value identifying consumer preferences and willingness pay attributes using choice experiment (CE) method. a...