Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Kayi Çağatay Author-Name: Ramaekers Eve Author-workplace-name: METEOR Title: An Impossibility in Sequencing Problems Abstract: A set of agents with different waiting costs have to receive a service of different length of time from a single provider which can serve only one agent at a time. One needs to form a queue and set up monetary transfers to compensate the agents who have to wait. We prove that no rule satisfies efficiency of queues and coalitional strategy-proofness. Keywords: mathematical economics; Series: Research Memoranda Creation-Date: 2008 Number: 040 File-URL: http://digitalarchive.maastrichtuniversity.nl/fedora/objects/guid:ed41f53c-7ff6-456c-8732-0197a4f2ea94/datastreams/ASSET1/content File-Format: application/pdf File-Size: 171730 Handle: RePEc:unm:umamet:2008040