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Ewerhart, Christian - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2009

Some of the most beautiful results in mechanism design depend crucially on Myerson?s (1981) regularity condition. E.g., the second-price auction with reserve price is revenue maximizing only if the type distribution is regular. This paper offers two main results. First, an interpretation of...

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Optimal design and p-concavity

Ewerhart, Christian - 2009

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Regular type distributions in mechanism design and <InlineEquation ID="IEq1"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$$\rho $$</EquationSource> </InlineEquation>-concavity

Ewerhart, Christian - In: Economic Theory 53 (2013) 3, pp. 591-603

Some of the best-known results in mechanism design depend critically on Myerson’s (Math Oper Res 6:58–73, <CitationRef CitationID="CR22">1981</CitationRef>) regularity condition. For example, the second-price auction with reserve price is revenue maximizing only if the type distribution is regular. This paper offers two main findings....</citationref>

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Regular type distributions in mechanism design and þ-concavity

Ewerhart, Christian - In: Economic theory : official journal of the Society for … 53 (2013) 3, pp. 591-603

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Aggregation and social choice : a mean voter theorem

Caplin, Andrew - In: Econometrica : journal of the Econometric Society, an … 59 (1991) 1, pp. 1-23

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