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On The Generic Impossibility Of Truthful Behavior: A Simple Approach

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Luis Corchón () (Universidad de Alicante)
Carmen Beviá Baeza (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona)

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We provide an elementary proof showing how in economies with an arbitrary number of agents an arbitrary number of public goods and quasi-Linear utility functions, any efficient and individually rational mechanism is not strategy-proof for any economy satisfying a mild segularity requirement.

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Paper provided by Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie) in its series Working Papers. Serie AD with number 1993-06.

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  5. Gonzalo Olcina Vauteren & Amparo Urbano Salvador, 1993. "INTROSPECTION AND EQUILIBRIUM SELECTION IN 2x2 MATRIX GAMES," Working Papers. Serie AD 1993-01, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie). [Downloadable!]
  6. Antonio Villar Notario & Carmen Herrero Blanco, 1990. "Vector Mappings With Diagonal Images," Working Papers. Serie AD 1990-01, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie). [Downloadable!]
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  7. Fernando Vega Redondo, 1991. "Competition And Culture In The Evolution Of Economic Behavior: A Simple Example," Working Papers. Serie AD 1991-08, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie). [Downloadable!]
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  12. Carmen Herrero Blanco & José Manuel Gutiérrez Díez, 1990. "Lagrangean Conditions For General Optimization Problems With Applications To Consumer Theory," Working Papers. Serie AD 1990-02, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie). [Downloadable!]
  13. Luis Corchón, 1990. "Monopolistic Competition: Equilibrium And Optimality," Working Papers. Serie AD 1990-05, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie). [Downloadable!]
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  14. Javier M. López Cuñat & José Angel Silva, 1991. "First-Best, Second-Best And Principal-Agent Problems," Working Papers. Serie AD 1991-02, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie). [Downloadable!]
  15. Luis Corchón & Ignacio Ortuño Ortín, 1991. "Robust Implementation Under Alternative Information Structures," Working Papers. Serie AD 1991-12, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie). [Downloadable!]
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  16. Fernando Vega Redondo, 1991. "Technological Change And Market Structure: An Evolutionary Approach," Working Papers. Serie AD 1991-10, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie). [Downloadable!]
  17. Amparo Urbano & María Dolores Alepuz Domenech, 1991. "Duopoly Experimentation: Cournot And Bertrand Competition," Working Papers. Serie AD 1991-07, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie). [Downloadable!]
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  1. Nikolai S. Kukushkin, 1993. "Cournot Oligopoly With "Almost" Identical Convex Costs," Working Papers. Serie AD 1993-07, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie). [Downloadable!]
  2. Begoña Subiza Martínez, 1993. "Numerical Representation Of Acyclic Preferences," Working Papers. Serie AD 1993-09, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie). [Downloadable!]
  3. Fernando Vega Redondo, 1993. "Industrial Dynamics, Path-Dependence And Technological Change," Working Papers. Serie AD 1993-04, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie). [Downloadable!]
  4. María Dolores Guilló, 1995. "Terms-Of-Trade And The Current Account: A Two-Country/Two-Sector Growth Model," Working Papers. Serie AD 1995-03, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie). [Downloadable!]
  5. James Schummer, 1999. "Almost-dominant Strategy Implementation," Discussion Papers 1278, Northwestern University, Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science. [Downloadable!]
  6. Carmen Herrero Blanco, 1993. "Endogenous Reference Points And The Adjusted Proportional Solution For Bargaining Problems With Claims," Working Papers. Serie AD 1993-13, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie). [Downloadable!]
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  7. Luis Corchón & Andreu Mas-Colell, 1995. "A Note On Stability Of Best Reply And Gradient Systems With Applications To Imperfectly Competitive Models," Working Papers. Serie AD 1995-18, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie). [Downloadable!]
  8. Fernando Vega Redondo, 1993. "Shaping Long-Run Expectations In Problems Of Coordination," Working Papers. Serie AD 1993-05, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie). [Downloadable!]
  9. Martín Browning, 1993. "Dual Approaches To Utility," Working Papers. Serie AD 1993-10, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie). [Downloadable!]
  10. Luis Corchón & Simon Wilkie, 1995. "Implementation Of The Walrasian Correspondence By Market Games," Working Papers. Serie AD 1995-02, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie). [Downloadable!]
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  11. Miguel González-Maestre, 1993. "Divisionalization In Markets With Hetergeneous Goods," Working Papers. Serie AD 1993-12, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie). [Downloadable!]
  12. Fernando Vega Redondo, 1993. "On The Evolution Of Cooperation In General Games Of Common Interest," Working Papers. Serie AD 1993-11, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie). [Downloadable!]
  13. José Alcalde, 1995. "Exchange-Proofness or Divorce-Proofness? Stability in One-Sided Matching Markets," Working Papers. Serie AD 1995-04, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie). [Downloadable!]
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