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Nash Implementation in Production Economies with Unequal Skills: A Characterization

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  • Naoki Yoshihara

    (School of Management, Kochi University of Technology)

  • Akira Yamada

    (Sapporo University)

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The present study examines production economies with unequal labor skills, where the planner is ignorant of the set of feasible allocations in advance of production. In particular, we characterize Nash implementation by canonical mechanisms by means of Maskin monotonicity and a new axiom, non-manipulability of unused skills (NUS), where the latter represents a weak independence property with respect to changes in skills. Following these characterizations, we show that some Maskin monotonic social choice correspondences are not implementable if information about individual skills is absent.

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  • Naoki Yoshihara & Akira Yamada, 2018. "Nash Implementation in Production Economies with Unequal Skills: A Characterization," Working Papers SDES-2018-18, Kochi University of Technology, School of Economics and Management, revised Dec 2018.
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    Keywords

    Unequal labor skills; Nash implementation; Canonical mechanisms; Non-manipulability of unused skills;
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    JEL classification:

    • C72 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Noncooperative Games
    • D51 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - Exchange and Production Economies
    • D78 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation
    • D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design

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