INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICAL ECONOMICS

Walter Trockel

Working-Paper No. 305

January 1999

Abstract

The present paper provides a method by which the Nash Program may be embedded into mechanism theory. It is shown that any result stating the support of any solution of a cooperative game in coalitional form by a noncooperative equilibrium of some suitable game in strategic form can be used to derive a mechanism theoretic implementation in this equilibrium of that solution.

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