Coalition-proof allocations in adverse-selection economies

Citation
Jm. Lacker et Ja. Weinberg, Coalition-proof allocations in adverse-selection economies, GENEVA PAP, 24(1), 1999, pp. 5-17
Citations number
17
Categorie Soggetti
Economics
Journal title
GENEVA PAPERS ON RISK AND INSURANCE THEORY
ISSN journal
09264957 → ACNP
Volume
24
Issue
1
Year of publication
1999
Pages
5 - 17
Database
ISI
SICI code
0926-4957(199906)24:1<5:CAIAE>2.0.ZU;2-4
Abstract
We reexamine the canonical adverse selection insurance economy first studie d by Rothschild and Stiglitz [1976]. We define blocking in a way that takes private information into account and define a coalition-proof corresponden ce as a mapping from coalitions to allocations with the property that alloc ations are in the correspondence, if and only if, they are not blocked by a ny other allocations in the correspondence for any subcoalition. We prove t hat the Miyazaki allocation-the Pareto-optimal allocation (possibly cross-s ubsidized) most preferred by low-risk agents-is coalition-proof.