In a no-transfer project approval problem with two-sided private information, the principal-optimal mechanism is privacy preserving: it never elicits the agent's benefit, and amounts to disclosed cost information plus delegation.
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In a no-transfer project approval problem with two-sided private information, the principal-optimal mechanism is privacy preserving: it never elicits the agent's benefit, and amounts to disclosed cost information plus delegation.