Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Öztürk Murat Author-Name: Peters Hans Author-Name: Storcken Ton Author-workplace-name: METEOR Title: Strategy-proof location of a public bad on a disc Abstract: In a model with finitely many agents who have single-dipped Euclidean preferences on a disc in theEuclidean plane, a rule assigns to each profile of reported dips a point of the disc. It is provedthat any strategy-proof and Pareto optimal rule is a dictatorial. This framework models situationswhere public bads such as garbage dumping grounds or nuclear plants have to be located within aconfined region that has the shape of a disc. Keywords: public economics ; Series: Research Memoranda Creation-Date: 2012 Number: 042 File-URL: http://digitalarchive.maastrichtuniversity.nl/fedora/objects/guid:8571b798-2c13-49ee-8bd3-c118d56beae0/datastreams/ASSET1/content File-Format: application/pdf File-Size: 286513 Handle: RePEc:unm:umamet:2012042