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Knightian Robustness of Single-Parameter Domains

Computer Science and Game Theory 2014-03-26 v1

Abstract

We consider players that have very limited knowledge about their own valuations. Specifically, the only information that a Knightian player ii has about the profile of true valuations, θ\theta^*, consists of a set of distributions, from one of which θi\theta_i^* has been drawn. We prove a ``robustness'' theorem for Knightian players in single-parameter domains: every mechanism that is weakly dominant-strategy truthful for classical players continues to be well-behaved for Knightian players that choose undominated strategies.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1403.6411,
  title  = {Knightian Robustness of Single-Parameter Domains},
  author = {Alessandro Chiesa and Silvio Micali and Zeyuan Allen Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.6411},
  year   = {2014}
}
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