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Fritz John’s equation in mechanism design

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We show the role that an important equation first studied by Fritz John plays in mechanism design.

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Funding from NSF grant DMS-1716489, as well as ERC grant CoG-866274 are acknowledged. The author benefited from insightful discussions with Guillaume Carlier, Deniz Dizdar, and Benny Moldovanu.

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Correspondence to Alfred Galichon.

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Dedicated to Nicholas Yannelis on his 65th birthday.

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Galichon, A. Fritz John’s equation in mechanism design. Econ Theory Bull 9, 1–5 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40505-020-00195-4

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