The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth

  1. Amorós González, Pablo
  2. Corchón Díaz, Luis C.
  3. Moreno Jiménez, Bernardo
Revista:
Documentos de trabajo de análisis económico

Any de publicació: 1999

Número: 1

Pàgines: 1-38

Tipus: Document de treball

Resum

In this paper we study a class of problems where society wants to elicit the truth from the agents. We focused our attention on a canonical subproblem in which the basic question is tractable. We prove the impossibility to obtain the truth from dominant strategies and that implementation in Nash and Coalition-Proof can be done with simple mechanisms