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Mechanism Design

Mechanism Design

Mar 22, 2019 by badger

Mechanism design is the theory of how to construct institutions for strategic agents, spanning applications like voting systems, school admissions, regulation of monopolists, and auction design. Think of it as the engineering side of game theory, building algorithms for strategic agents.

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95[Sequence announcement] Introduction to Mechanism Design
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71Mechanism Design: Constructing Algorithms for Strategic Agents
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40Incentive compatibility and the Revelation Principle
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23Strategyproof Mechanisms: Impossibilities
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42Strategyproof Mechanisms: Possibilities
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