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.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Journal: Theoretical Economics ; ISSN: 1555-7561 ; Volume: 16 ; Year: 2021 ; Issue: 3 ; Pages: 1139-1194 ; New Haven, CT: The Econometric Society
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Rationing; Licensing
Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis
Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
Publicly Provided Private Goods
- Thema
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Mechanism design
budget constraints
efficiency
costly verification
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Li, Yunan
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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The Econometric Society
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New Haven, CT
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2021
- DOI
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doi:10.3982/TE3907
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
- 10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Artikel
Beteiligte
- Li, Yunan
- The Econometric Society
Entstanden
- 2021