Bayesian and Dominant Strategy Implementation in the Independent Private Values Model
Alejandro Manelli and Daniel R. Vincent
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6
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78
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Econometrica
1905-1938
November
2010
Abstract
We prove—in the standard independent private-values model—that the outcome, in terms of interim expected probabilities of trade and interim expected transfers, of any Bayesian mechanism can also be obtained with a dominant-strategy mechanism.