Abstract

The problem of incentives for correct revelation in a collective decision model is presented as a game with incomplete information. Two ap-proaches to incomplete information are used, a first where the individual beliefs are not introduced and a second where they are. In the first ap-proach it is recalled that the mechanisms for which the solution to the incentive problem is in dominant strategies lead in general to a budgetary problem for the central agency. For these mechanisms a uniqueness prop-erty is demonstrated. In the second approach it is shown that if a com-patibility condition is imposed on the individual beliefs and if a Bayesian solution is given to the incentive problem, then it is possible to avoid the budgetary problem. 1