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	<REFERENCE_TYPE>31</REFERENCE_TYPE>
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		<AUTHOR>Bade, Sophie</AUTHOR>
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	<YEAR>2011</YEAR>
	<TITLE>Pareto-Optimal Assignments by Hierarchical Exchange</TITLE>
	<PLACE_PUBLISHED>Bonn</PLACE_PUBLISHED>
	<PUBLISHER>Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods</PUBLISHER>
	<NUMBER>2011/11</NUMBER>
	<ABSTRACT>A version of the Second Fundamental Theorem of Welfare Economics that applies to a money-free environment, in which a set of indivisible goods needs to be matched to some set of agents, is established. In such environments, &quot;trade&quot; can be identified with the set of hierarchical exchange mechanisms dened by Papai (2000). Papai (2000)'s result &acirc;€“ that any such mechanism yields Pareto-optimal allocations &acirc;€“ can be interpreted as a version of the First Fundamental Theorem of Welfare Economics for the given environment. In this note, I show that for any Pareto-optimal allocation and any hierarchical exchange mechanism one can nd an initial allocation of ownership rights, such that the given Pareto-optimal allocation arises as a result of trade.</ABSTRACT>
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