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The Revelation and Delegation Principles in Common Agency Games

Econometrica 2002 70(4), 1659-1673
In the context of common agency adverse-selection games we illustrate that the revelation principle cannot be applied to study equilibria of the multi-principal games. We then demonstrate that an extension of the taxation principle - what we term the delegation principle - can be used to characterize the set of all common agency equilibria.