Dynamic mechanism design: A myersonian approach

Econometrica

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 601-653

  Pavan, Alessandro ^a   Segal, Ilya ^b   Toikka, Juuso ^c  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetric information; Envelope theorems; Incentives; Mechanism design; Stochastic processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887547031     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: 14680262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3982/ECTA10269     Document Type: Article

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