On the generic impossibility of truthful behavior: A simple approach

  1. Carmen Beviá Baeza
  2. Luis Corchón Díaz
Revue:
Working papers = Documentos de trabajo: Serie AD

Année de publication: 1993

Número: 6

Pages: 1-22

Type: Working Paper

Résumé

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.