The communication requirements of efficient allocations and supporting prices.

We show that any communication finding a value-maximizing allocation in a private-information economy must also discover supporting prices (in general personalized and nonlinear). In particular, to allocate L indivisible items between two agents, a price must be revealed for each of the 2L-1 bundles...

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Publicado en:Journal of Economic Theory Vol. 129; no. 1; pp. 192 - 225
Autores principales: Nisan, Noam, Segal, Ilya
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Academic Press Inc. July 2006
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