The context in which a mechanism is defined and meant to operate plays an important role, and in more than one way. We advocate a contextual approach to mechanism design, that extends to both non-classical aspects of decision and of the physical and information-theoretic environment in which the...

We study full surplus extraction and implementation in dynamic environments. We exploit intertemporal correlations of agents' types to construct within-period ex post incentive compatible mechanisms. First, we formulate one-shot environments, in which a single agent has a hidden type and the...