We consider expected profit maximizing mechanisms for a principal who has to allocate a group of agents among a number of projets, assuming that the principal has incomplete information about each agent's ability type, and the agents follow the Bayes-Nash or the dominant strategy equilibrium behavior. We find that while expected profit maximizing mechanisms ar similare to the optimal auction, the incentive compatibility constraints are much more restrictive. Interestingly, these constraints are satisfied if each agent's characteristics change in a consistent manner not only with types, but also from project to project.
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Length: 30 pages Date of creation: 1997 Date of revision: Handle: RePEc:mlb:wpaper:559
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