Designing efficient and incentive compatible mechanisms is almost impossible in quasi-linear environments
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Keywords
Incentive compatibility; Efficiency; Financial constraints; Mechanism design; Impossibility;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C79 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Other
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
- D71 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Social Choice; Clubs; Committees; Associations
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