Useful Links / Further Reading
Leonid Hurwicz, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA. |
Eric S. Maskin, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA |
Roger B. Myerson, University of Chicago, IL, USA |
Introductury scientific articles |
Baliga, S. and E. Maskin (2003): “Mechanism design for the environment”, in K. Mäler and J. Vincent (eds.), Handbook of Environmental Economics. Elsevier Science, Amsterdam. |
Serrano, R. (2004): “The theory of implementation of social choice rules”, SIAM Review 46, 377–414. |
Mas-Colell, A., Whinston M., and J. Green (1995): Microeconomic Theory. Oxford University Press. |
Original scientific articles |
Hurwicz. L. (1960): “Optimality and informational efficiency in resource allocation processes”, in Arrow, Karlin and Suppes (eds.), Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences, Stanford University Press. |
Hurwicz L. (1972): “On informationally decentralized systems”, in Radner and McGuire, Decision and Organization, North-Holland. |
Maskin E. (1977): “Nash equilibrium and welfare optimality”. Paper presented at the summer workshop of the Econometric Society in Paris, June 1977. Published 1999 in the Review of Economic Studies 66, 23–38. |
Myerson R. (1981): “Optimal auction design”, Mathematics of Operations Research 6, 58–73. |
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