Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/296400 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Citation: 
[Journal:] Theoretical Economics [ISSN:] 1555-7561 [Volume:] 17 [Issue:] 4 [Year:] 2022 [Pages:] 1803-1845
Publisher: 
The Econometric Society, New Haven, CT
Abstract: 
We consider general asset market environments in which agents with quasilinear payoffs are endowed with objects and have demands for other agents' objects. We show that if all agents have a maximum demand of one object and are endowed with at most one object, the VCG transfer of each agent is equal to the largest net Walrasian price of this agent. Consequently, the VCG deficit is equal to the sum of the largest net Walrasian prices over all agents. Generally, whenever Walrasian prices exist, the sum of the largest net Walrasian prices is a non-negative lower bound for the deficit, implying that no dominant-strategy mechanism runs a budget surplus while respecting agents' ex post individual rationality constraints.
Subjects: 
Asset markets
efficient trade
largest net Walrasian prices
VCG deficit
JEL: 
C72
D44
D47
D61
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Document Type: 
Article

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