Knightian Analysis of the Vickrey Mechanism

We analyze the Vickrey mechanism for auctions of multiple identical goods when the players have both Knightian uncertainty over their own valuations and incomplete preferences. In this model, the Vickrey mechanism is no longer dominant‐strategy, and we prove that all dominant‐strategy mechanisms are...

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Main Authors: Chiesa, Alessandro, Micali, Silvio, Zhu, Zeyuan Allen
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: The Econometric Society 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/100962
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0816-4064