This is a reading course on multidimensional mechanism design. We meet once or twice every week for about two to three hours. The objective is to understand, as much as possible, the ideas behind multidimensional mechanism design from first principles. In particular, we will study allocation rules that satisfy cycle monotonicity, revenue equivalence, monotonicity, and belong to affine maximizer family. Hopefully, this will lead to a better undestanding (and also solving) of some open problems in this area.

Notes on multidimensional mechanism design (updated throughout this semester): [Download].