THEORY OF MECHANISM DESIGN

Approxymate syllabus: [Download]

Lecture notes on mechanism design: [Download]

Assignment 1: [Download]

Readings:

• Proofs of Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem: [Reny's proof]; [Barbera's proof]; [Svensson and Reffgen's proof]
  
• Ordinal Bayesian incentive compatibility in voting: [Sen and Majumdar] and [Mishra]
  
• Optimal voting rules: [Gershkov, Moldovanu, and Shi]
  
• Efficient resource allocation on the basis of priorities: [Ergin]
  

Guidelines for referee report: [Download]