Continuous Implementation with Small Transfers

Yi-Chun Chen (), Takashi Kunimoto and Yifei Sun ()
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Yi-Chun Chen: Department of Economics and Risk Management Institute, National University of Singapore
Yifei Sun: School of International Trade and Economics, University of International Business and Economics

No 19-2019, Economics and Statistics Working Papers from Singapore Management University, School of Economics

Abstract: The robust mechanism design literature investigates the global robustness of op-timal mechanisms to large changes in the environment. Acknowledging the global robustness as an overly demanding requirement, we propose continuous implementa-tion as a local robustness of optimal mechanisms to small changes in the environment. We say that a social choice function is continuously implementable “with small trans-fers” if there exists a mechanism which yields the outcome close to the desired one for all types close to the designer’s initial model. We show that when a generic cor-relation condition is imposed on the class of interdependent values environments, any incentive compatible social choice function is continuously implementable with small transfers. This exhibits a stark contrast with Bergemann and Morris (2005) who show that their global robustness amounts to ex post incentive compatibility as well as Oury and Tercieux (2012) who show that continuous implementation generates a substantial restriction, tightly connected to full implementation in rationalizable strategies.

Keywords: Continuous implementation; full implementation; incentive compatibility; robustness; transfers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C72 D78 D82 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 45 pages
Date: 2019-10-09
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