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Beliefs, Payoffs, Information: On the Robustness of the BDP Property in Models with Endogenous BeliefsAlia GizatulinaMax Planck Society for the Advancement of the Sciences - Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods Martin F. HellwigMax Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods; University of Bonn - Department of Economics March 23, 2012 MPI Collective Goods Preprint, No. 2011/28 Abstract: Neeman (2004) and Heifetz and Neeman (2006) have shown that, in auctions with incomplete information about payoffs, full surplus extraction is only possible if agents’ beliefs about other agents are fully informative about their own payoff parameters. They argue that the set of incomplete-information models satisfying this so-called BDP property ("beliefs determine preferences") is negligible, in a geometric and a measure-theoretic sense. In contrast, we show that, in models with finite-dimensional type spaces, this property is topologically generic if the set of objects about which beliefs are formed is sufficiently rich and beliefs are derived by conditioning on the available information; for any agent, this information includes his own payoff parameters.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 44 Keywords: Mechanism Design, surplus extraction, BDP, correlated information, universal type space JEL Classification: D82, D44, D40, D80 working papers seriesDate posted: March 27, 2012Suggested CitationContact Information
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