Robust mechanism design and dominant strategy voting rules

Theoretical Economics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 339-360

  Börgers, Tilman ^a   Smith, Doug ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION   (United States)

Author keywords

Gibbard Satterthwaite theorem; Robust mechanism design

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901653382     PISSN: 19336837     EISSN: 15557561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3982/TE1111     Document Type: Article

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