Studies in Mechanism Design and Game Theory

Hannu Vartiainen ()

University of Helsinki, Department of Economics from Department of Economics

Abstract: Mechanism design or implementation theory, which studies the design of institutions or mechanisms implementing collective decisions under different circumstances, has been a major research area in the last three decades. hannu Vartiainen's doctoral dissertation analyzes several issues in this theory. The first essay considers implementation in the framework of two-player bargaining games which set-up has not been much studied in the literature. The second essay provides a full characterization of sub-game perfect implementation. In the first two essays complete information is assumed, while the third essay adopts a Bayesian framework. The third essay looks at auction design when neither the seller nor the buyers can commit to the initial rules of the auction.

Keywords: GAME THEORY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C60 C70 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 163 pages
Date: 1999
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