Econometrica

Journal Of The Econometric Society

An International Society for the Advancement of Economic
Theory in its Relation to Statistics and Mathematics

Edited by: Guido W. Imbens • Print ISSN: 0012-9682 • Online ISSN: 1468-0262

Econometrica: Sep, 1980, Volume 48, Issue 6

A Differential Approach to Dominant Strategy Mechanisms

https://doi.org/0012-9682(198009)48:6<1507:ADATDS>2.0.CO;2-2
p. 1507-1520

Eric Maskin, Jean-Jacques Laffont

This paper shows how a number of questions about dominant strategy mechanisms in models with public goods can be conveniently formulated as systems of partial differential equations. The question of the existence of dominant strategy mechanisms with given desirable properties becomes equivalent to the integrability of these equations.


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