Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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956694 | Journal of Economic Theory | 2016 | 30 Pages |
Abstract
We study deterministic voting mechanisms by considering an ordinal notion of Bayesian incentive compatibility (OBIC). If the beliefs of agents are independent and generic, we show that a mechanism is OBIC and satisfies an additional condition called elementary monotonicity if and only if it is a dominant strategy incentive compatible mechanism. Our result works in a large class of preference domains (that include the unrestricted domain, the single-peaked domain, the single-dipped domain, and some single-crossing domains). We can significantly weaken elementary monotonicity in our result in the single-peaked domain if we assume unanimity and in a large class of domains if we assume unanimity and tops-onlyness.
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Authors
Debasis Mishra,