. -- tournament ; mechanism ; information revelation ; Jensen’s inequality …This paper studies the problem of information revelation in a multi-stage tournament where the agents’ effort in each …

power after offering their mechanisms. I show that, in contrast with mechanism design models with one informed principal …

This paper studies an informed mechanism designer problem in which the principal’s private information is a number of … in the sense that a conversion problem for a grand mechanism is resolved – each agent’s expected payment taking into …, additionally, the principal’s expected payoff linearity, there is a single threshold for the optimal grand mechanism if a sub-mechanism …

We consider a mechanism design setting in which agents can acquire costly information on their preferences as well as … others'. The choice of the mechanism generates informational incentives as it affects what information is acquired before … play begins. A mechanism is informationally simple if agents have no incentive to learn about others' preferences. This …