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arxiv: 1206.1188 · v1 · pith:YCDEHUTAnew · submitted 2012-06-06 · 💻 cs.GT

Traditional sufficient conditions for Nash implementation may fail on Internet

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keywords agentsdesigneragreementinternetmaskinmechanismnashadditional
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The Maskin's theorem is a fundamental work in the theory of mechanism design. In this paper, we propose that if agents report messages to the designer through channels (e.g., Internet), agents can construct a self-enforcing agreement such that any Pareto-inefficient social choice rule satisfying monotonicity and no-veto will not be Nash implementable when an additional condition is satisfied. The key points are: 1) The agreement is unobservable to the designer, and the designer cannot prevent the agents from constructing such agreement; 2) The agents act non-cooperatively, and the Maskin mechanism remain unchanged from the designer's perspective.

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