the external constraints imposed by this mechanism may affect consumption, pricing and the true redistributive concerns of … redistribution of the international agency in charge of designing the mechanism and the role of its ability to enforce that mechanism …

We consider a revelation mechanism for the production of public goods. A sample of consumers is drawn at random. Each … surplus of taxes collected on sampled agents is redistributed to non-sampled agents. This polling mechanism is non … to a public good with exclusion, this mechanism, in combination with consumer free mobility, yields approximately optimal …

approximate the optimal solution by a simple fixed fee mechanism, which involves second degree price discrimination if identities … are informative about the distribution of preferences. Truth-telling is a dominant strategy in the fixed fee mechanism …

provision mechanism weakly exceeds a prespecified ratio alpha. We call this requirement "alpha proportional individual … in a mechanism. We find that as the economy becomes large, an agent's influence in any anonymous mechanism converges to … zero, and any interim incentive compatible anonymous mechanism must converge to a constant mechanism. We obtain the uniform …