A mechanism to pick the deserving winner

Author

Moskalenko, Anna

Other authors

Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Departament d'Economia

Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Centre de Recerca en Economia Industrial i Economia Pública

Publication date

2015



Abstract

A group of individuals is choosing an individual (the winner) among themselves, when the identity of the deserving winner is a common knowledge among individuals. A simple mechanism of voting by veto is proposed as an alternative to the mechanism studied by Amorós (2011). Like Amorós’(2011), the suggested mechanism implements the socially desirable outcome (the deserving winner is chosen) in subgame perfect equilibria. Keywords: Implementation, mechanism design, subgame perfect equilibrium, individuals choosing among themselves, voting by veto. JEL classification: C72, D71, D78

Document Type

Working document

Language

English

CDU Subject

33 - Economics. Economic science

Subject

Jocs no-cooperatius (Matemàtica); Elecció social

Pages

10 p.

Publisher

Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Departament d'Economia

Collection

Documents de treball del Departament d'Economia; 2015-20

Documents

201520.pdf

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