Department of Economics2024-11-0920040176-171410.1007/s00355-003-0231-02-s2.0-2442692795http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00355-003-0231-0https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14288/7307A group of friends consider renting a house but they shall first agree on how to allocate its rooms and share the rent. We propose an auction mechanism for room assignment-rent division problems which mimics the market mechanism. Our auction mechanism is efficient, envy-free, individually-rational and it yields a non-negative price to each room whenever that is possible with envy-freeness.EconomicsSocial sciencesJournal Article1432-217X220906800005Q47948