Strategic Cost Selection in Participatory Budgeting

We study strategic behavior of project proposers in the context of approval-based participatory budgeting (PB). In our model we assume that the votes are fixed and known and the proposers want to set as high project prices as possible, provided that their projects get selected and the prices are not below the minimum costs of their delivery. We study the existence of pure Nash equilibria (NE) in such games, focusing on the AV/Cost, Phragmen, and Method of Equal Shares rules. We also provide an experimental study of cost selection on real-life PB election data.

Authors

• Piotr Faliszewski AGH University
• Łukasz Janeczko AGH University of Science and Technology
• Andrzej Kaczmarczyk AGH University
• Grzegorz Lisowski AGH University of Science and Technology
• Piotr Skowron
• Stanisław Szufa CNRS, LAMSADE, Université Paris Dauphine-PSL
• Mateusz Szwagierczak

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