Author : Guoqiang Tian
Release : 2004
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Book Synopsis A Unique Informationally Efficient Allocation Mechanism in Economies with Consumption Externalities by : Guoqiang Tian
Download or read book A Unique Informationally Efficient Allocation Mechanism in Economies with Consumption Externalities written by Guoqiang Tian. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This article investigates the informational requirements of resource allocation processes in pure exchange economies with consumption externalities. It is shown that the distributive Lindahl mechanism has a minimal informational size of the message space, and thus it is informationally the most efficient allocation process that is informationally decentralized and realizes Pareto-efficient allocations over the class of economies that include non-malevolent economies. Furthermore, it is shown that the distributive Lindahl mechanism is the unique informationally efficient decentralized mechanism that realizes Pareto-efficient and individually rational allocations over a certain class of nonmalevolent economies.