ON THE GENERIC IMPOSSIBILITY OF TRUTHFUL BEHAVIOR: A SIMPLE APPROACH

Luis Corchon and Carmen Bevia (carmen.bevia@ua.es)

Working Papers. Serie AD from Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie)

Abstract: We provide an elementary proof showing how in economies with an arbitrary number of agents an arbitrary number of public goods and quasi-Linear utility functions, any efficient and individually rational mechanism is not strategy-proof for any economy satisfying a mild segularity requirement.

Pages: 22 pages
Date: 1993-07
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