The Introduction to the Symposium Issue on “Dynamic Contract and Mechanism Design” of the Journal of Economic Theory provides an overview of the dynamic mechanism design literature. We then introduce the papers that are contained in the Symposium issue and finally conclude by discussing...

Foreword -- Introduction -- Robust mechanism design -- Ex post implementation -- Robust implementation in direct mechanisms -- Robust implementation in general mechanisms -- The role of the common prior in robust implementation -- An ascending auction for interdependent values : uniqueness and...