Seminar at IGIDR by Dr. Abdul Quadir, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.

Date & Hour: 27 May 2019, 4:00 pm

Venue: Seminar Hall 1

Title: Mechanism Design in Single Dimensional Type Spaces

Abstract: We consider a class of mechanism design problems in private value environment where the type of an agent is a single number. The preference over transfers is quasi-linear for every agent. We give a complete characterization of dominant strategy incentive compatible mechanisms for these problems. Further, by imposing a suitable version of anonymity and non-bossiness along with dominant strategy incentive compatibility, we characterize the Groves mechanisms.