Mechanism design or implementation theory, which studies the design of institutions or mechanisms implementing collective decisions under different circumstances, has been a major research area in the last three decades. hannu Vartiainen's doctoral dissertation analyzes several issues in this...

We study repeated prize allocation when the discount factors of the agents are unequal. The feasible set of payoffs behaves badly: the Pareto frontier is everywhere discontinuous and there is an open subset of (high) discount factors under which the feasible set is totally disconnected.