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A Note on the Tight Simplification of Mechanisms

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  • Eduardo Perez

    (ECON - Département d'économie (Sciences Po) - Sciences Po - Sciences Po - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

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This note offers characterizations of tightness and weak tightness. It shows that when the preference domainis that of continuous utility functions on the outcome space, the two notions are equivalent to the outcomeclosure property of Milgrom (2010a).

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  • Eduardo Perez, 2011. "A Note on the Tight Simplification of Mechanisms," SciencePo Working papers Main hal-03583826, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:spmain:hal-03583826
    DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2010.10.007
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    1. Milgrom, Paul, 2010. "Simplified mechanisms with an application to sponsored-search auctions," Games and Economic Behavior, Elsevier, vol. 70(1), pages 62-70, September.
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    Keywords

    Mechanism design; Simplification; Tightness;
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    • C78 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Bargaining Theory; Matching Theory

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