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On Efficient Trading Mechanisms with Ex-Post Individually Rational Traders

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Stefano Galavotti () (Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Venice)

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This paper studies a bilateral trading setting where the two agents are not ex-ante identified, in the sense that each of them may end up being a net buyer or a net seller. We derive a sufficient condition that ensures the existence of an (ex-post) efficient, (ex-post) budget balanced, (interim) incentive compatible trading mechanism that always yields a positive net utility to all agents (ex-post individually rational). This result improves a former existence result based on interim individual rationality showing that the stronger requirement of ex-post individual rationality does not always rule out efficiency.

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Paper provided by Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Venice in its series Working Papers with number 161.

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D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information

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