Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/221456 
Year of Publication: 
1994
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Paper No. 1100
Publisher: 
Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management, Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science, Evanston, IL
Abstract: 
A mechanism that is both efficient and incentive compatible in the Bayesian-Nash sense is shown to be payoff-equilvalent to a Groves mechanism at the point in time when each agent has just acquired his private information. This equilvalence result simplifies the question of whether or not an efficient, Bayesian incentive compatible mechanism can satisfy other desired objectives, for the search for an appropriate mechanism can be restricted to the family of Groves mechanisms. The method is used to extend a result of Myerson and Satterthwaite on the inefficiency of bilateral bargaining to multilateral setting.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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