Published in:MPI Collective Goods Preprint ; No. 2017/2
Extent:
1 Online-Ressource (48 p)
Language:
English
DOI:
10.2139/ssrn.2921868
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Footnote:
Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments May 25, 2017 erstellt
Description:
McAfee and Reny (1992) have given a necessary and sufficient condition for full surplus extraction in naive type spaces with a continuum of payoff types. We generalize their characterization to arbitrary abstract type spaces and to the universal type space and show that in each setting, full surplus extraction is generically possible. We interpret the McAfee-Reny condition as a much stronger version of injectiveness of belief functions and prove genericity by arguments similar to those used to prove the classical embedding theorem for continuous functions. Our results can be used to also establish the genericity of common priors that admit full surplus extraction