Artikel

Mechanism design with financially constrained agents and costly verification

A principal distributes an indivisible good to budget-constrained agents when both valuation and budget are agents' private information. The principal can verify an agent's budget at a cost. The welfare-maximizing mechanism can be implemented via a two-stage scheme. First, agents report their budgets, receive cash transfers, and decide whether to enter a lottery over the good. Second, recipients of the good can sell it on a resale market but must pay a sales tax. Low-budget agents receive a higher cash transfer, pay a lower price to enter the lottery, and face a higher sales tax. They are also randomly inspected.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Journal: Theoretical Economics ; ISSN: 1555-7561 ; Volume: 16 ; Year: 2021 ; Issue: 3 ; Pages: 1139-1194 ; New Haven, CT: The Econometric Society

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Rationing; Licensing
Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis
Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
Publicly Provided Private Goods
Thema
Mechanism design
budget constraints
efficiency
costly verification

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Li, Yunan
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
The Econometric Society
(wo)
New Haven, CT
(wann)
2021

DOI
doi:10.3982/TE3907
Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ

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  • Artikel

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  • Li, Yunan
  • The Econometric Society

Entstanden

  • 2021

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