On the generic impossibility of truthful behavior: A simple approach
Datum der Publikation: 1993
Nummer: 6
Seiten: 1-22
Art: Arbeitsdokument
Zusammenfassung
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.