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Undominated mechanisms and the provision of a pure public good in two agent economies

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  • Efthymios Athanasiou

    (New Economic School)

  • Giacomo Valletta

    (EDHEC Business School)

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We revisit the problem of providing a pure public good in economies involving two agents, under the assumption that preferences are quasilinear. We characterize the class of strategy-proof, anonymous and feasible mechanisms that are not dominated by another strategy-proof, anonymous and feasible mechanism. Mechanisms that decide, at some profiles of preferences, against the alternative that is preferred by all agents are members of this class. On the contrary, Groves mechanisms, with the sole exception of the Pivotal mechanism, are not. Finally, the only budget-balanced mechanism that belongs to this class is the Unanimity mechanism.

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  • Efthymios Athanasiou & Giacomo Valletta, 2021. "Undominated mechanisms and the provision of a pure public good in two agent economies," Social Choice and Welfare, Springer;The Society for Social Choice and Welfare, vol. 57(4), pages 763-795, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sochwe:v:57:y:2021:i:4:d:10.1007_s00355-021-01336-9
    DOI: 10.1007/s00355-021-01336-9
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