Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/62626 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2010-2
Publisher: 
Brown University, Department of Economics, Providence, RI
Abstract: 
Implementation in iteratively undominated strategies relies on permissive conditions. However, for the sufficiency results available, authors have relied on assumptions that amount to quasilinear preferences on a numeraire. We uncover a new necessary condition that implies that such assumptions cannot be dispensed with. We term the condition 'restricted deceptionproofness.' It requires that, in environments with identical preferences, the social choice function be immune to all deceptions, making it then stronger than incentive compatibility. In some environments the conditions for (exact or approximate) implementation are more restrictive than previously thought.
Subjects: 
mechanism design
exact and approximate implementation
iteratively undominated strategies
restricted deception-proofness
incentive compatibility
measurability
JEL: 
C72
D78
D82
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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