Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/93873 
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Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
SFB/TR 15 Discussion Paper No. 26
Publisher: 
Sonderforschungsbereich/Transregio 15 - Governance and the Efficiency of Economic Systems (GESY), München
Abstract: 
This paper shows that, contrary to what is generally believed, decreasing concavity of the agent's utility function with respect to the screening variable is not sufficient to ensure that stochastic mechanisms are suboptimal. The paper demonstrates, however, that they are suboptimal whenever the optimal deterministic mechanism exhibits no bunching. This is the case for most applications of the theory and therefore validates the literature's usual focus on deterministic mechanisms.
Subjects: 
principal-agent theory
mechanism design
deterministic mechanisms
randomization
bunching
JEL: 
D82
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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