Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/62639 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2009-11
Publisher: 
Brown University, Department of Economics, Providence, RI
Abstract: 
We characterize full implementation of social choice sets in mixedstrategy Bayesian equilibrium. Our results concern both exact and virtual mixed implementation. For exact implementation, we identify a strengthening of Bayesian monotonicity, which we refer to as mixed Bayesian monotonicity. It is shown that, in economic environments with at least three agents, mixed Bayesian implementation is equivalent to mixed Bayesian monotonicity, incentive compatibility and closure. For implementing a social choice function, the case of two-agents is also covered by these conditions and mixed Bayesian monotonicity reduces to Bayesian monotonicity. Following parallel steps, mixed virtual implementation is shown to be equivalent to mixed virtual monotonicity, incentive compatibility and closure. The key condition, mixed virtual monotonicity, is argued to be very weak. In particular, it is weaker than Abreu-Matsushima's measurability, thereby implying that: (1) virtual implementation in mixed Bayesian equilibrium is more permissive than virtual implementation in iteratively undominated strategies, and (2) non-regular mechanisms are essential for the implementation of rules in that gap.
Subjects: 
exact implementation
approximate implementation
incomplete information
incentive compatibility
monotonicity
JEL: 
C72
D78
D82
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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