Meisner, Vincent; Jarman, Felix - In: Essays in microeconomic theory, (pp. 5-57). 2016
We consider a budget-constrained mechanism designer who selects an optimal set of projects to maximize her utility. A … participation and budget constraints must hold for each possible outcome while the mechanism must be implementable in dominant … strategies. We derive the class of optimal mechanisms and show that it has a deferred acceptance auction representation. This …