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The communication burden of payment determination

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  • Babaioff, Moshe
  • Blumrosen, Liad
  • Schapira, Michael

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In the presence of self-interested parties, mechanism designers typically aim to implement some social-choice function in an equilibrium. This paper studies the cost of such equilibrium requirements in terms of communication. While a certain amount of information x needs to be communicated just for computing the outcome of a certain social-choice function, an additional amount of communication may be required for computing the equilibrium-supporting payments (if exist).

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  • Babaioff, Moshe & Blumrosen, Liad & Schapira, Michael, 2013. "The communication burden of payment determination," Games and Economic Behavior, Elsevier, vol. 77(1), pages 153-167.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:gamebe:v:77:y:2013:i:1:p:153-167
    DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2012.08.007
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    Keywords

    Implementation; Mechanism design; Communication complexity; Revelation principle;
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    JEL classification:

    • D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
    • D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness

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