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Beyond Hurwicz: Incentive Compatibility under Informational Decentralization

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Achieving incentive compatibility under informational decentralization is impossible within the class of direct and revelation-equivalent mechanisms typically studied in economics and computer science. We show that these impossibility results are conditional by identifying a narrow class of non-revelation-equivalent mechanisms that sustain enforcement by inferring preferences indirectly through parallel, uncorrelatable games.

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  • David Lancashire, 2026. "Beyond Hurwicz: Incentive Compatibility under Informational Decentralization," Papers 2602.01790, arXiv.org.
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