On the generic impossibility of truthful behavior: A simple approach
Ano de publicación: 1993
Número: 6
Páxinas: 1-22
Tipo: Documento de traballo
Resumo
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.