We derive the incentive compatible and ex-ante welfare maximizing (utilitarian) mechanism
for settings with an arbitrary number of agents and alternatives where the privately informed …

We present a costly voting model in which each voter has a private valuation for their
preferred outcome of a vote. When there is a zero cost to voting, all voters vote and hence all …

We consider the standard mechanism design environment with linear utility but without
monetary transfers. We first establish an equivalence between deterministic, dominant …

In this paper, we study the optimal provision of a costly public good using an average
efficiency criterion. For every fixed cost, we identify a quota mechanism as the optimal …

We study dominant strategy incentive compatible (DIC) and deterministic mechanisms in a
social choice setting with several alternatives. The agents are privately informed about their …