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Title: | Topics in the Design of Political and Economic Mechanisms |
Author(s): | Bugarin, Mauricio Soares |
Doctoral Committee Chair(s): | Williams, Steven R. |
Department / Program: | Economics |
Discipline: | Economics |
Degree Granting Institution: | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Degree: | Ph.D. |
Genre: | Dissertation |
Subject(s): | Political Science, General |
Abstract: | Finally, the third essay analyzes conditions for the convexifiability of an agent's utility $u(a)$ viewed a function of his type. The study shows that if the set of types A is an m-dimensional rectangle, $m\ge1,$ then u can be assumed convex in a without loss of generality. In particular, in any unidimensional model where A is convex and compact, u is essentially convex. Furthermore, if A is a compact, strictly convex set and its boundary $\partial A$ is a level set of a nonsingular function, the study derives conditions on A and u ensuring that there exists a change of variables H such that $B=H\sp{-1}(A)$ is a convex set and the function $U=u\circ H:B\to\IR$ is strictly convex. |
Issue Date: | 1997 |
Type: | Text |
Language: | English |
Description: | 77 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/85618 |
Other Identifier(s): | (MiAaPQ)AAI9812541 |
Date Available in IDEALS: | 2015-09-25 |
Date Deposited: | 1997 |
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