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Record W1820296540 · doi:10.1017/cbo9780511800481.012

Mechanism Design without Money

2007· book-chapter· en· W1820296540 on OpenAlexaff
James Schummer, Rakesh Vohra

Bibliographic record

VenueAlgorithmic Game Theory · 2007
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicEconomic theories and models
Canadian institutionsKellogg's (Canada)
Fundersnot available
KeywordsImpossibilityMechanism (biology)Mechanism designSpace (punctuation)Computer scienceMathematical economicsMicroeconomicsEconomicsPolitical scienceEpistemologyPhilosophy

Abstract

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Despite impossibility results on general domains, there are some classes of situations in which there exist interesting dominant-strategy mechanisms. While some of these situations (and the resulting mechanisms) involve the transfer of money, we examine some that do not. Specifically, we analyze problems where agents have single-peaked preferences over a one-dimensional “public” policy space; and problems where agents must match with each other. Introduction The Gibbard–Satterthwaite Theorem (Theorem 9. 8) is a Procrustean bed that is escaped only by relaxing its assumptions. In conjunction with the Revelation Principle (Proposition 9. 25), it states that on the general domain of preferences, only dictatorial rules can be implemented in dominant strategies (if the range contains at least three alternatives). In this chapter we escape Procrustes by examining dominant strategy implementation on restricted domains of preferences. In most applications it is clearly unreasonable to assume that agents' preferences are completely unrestricted, as was assumed in the voting context of Section 9.2.4. For instance, in situations involving the allocation of goods, including money, one can safely assume that each agent prefers to receive more money (or other goods). As can be seen in the following chapters, the ability for agents to make monetary transfers allows for a rich class of strategy-proof rules. Nevertheless there are many important environments where money cannot be used as a medium of compensation. This constraint can arise from ethical and/or institutional considerations: many political decisions must be made without monetary transfers; organ donations can be arranged by “trade” involving multiple needy patients and their relatives, yet monetary compensation is illegal.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.009
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.018
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.011
Threshold uncertainty score0.049

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0090.018
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.002
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0010.004
Scholarly communication0.0060.011
Open science0.0030.004
Research integrity0.0040.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0110.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.063
GPT teacher head0.228
Teacher spread0.164 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2007
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