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Classes of economies with consumption externalities and decisive, nonwasteful, and informationally decentralized allocation mechanisms on classes including these classes of economies are constructed. The informational size of the message spaces is shown to be minimal among the message spaces used by any allocation mechanisms with the same properties on the same class of economies. The message spaces are shown to be as large as \(n(\ell - 1)\)-dimensional Euclidean space, where n is the number of economic agents and \(\ell\) is the number of commodities. The presence of consumption externalities does not necessarily require larger message spaces for realizing Pareto-efficiency.
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Received: 11 December 2003, Accepted: 24 June 2005
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D5, D61, D71, D82, P51
The author is indebted to the associate editor and an anonymous referee for valuable comments, which have led to significant improvements in exposition. Thanks are also to Professor Michihiro Ohyama for valuable comments on economic interpretation of the result and to Hiroki Nishiwaki for pointing out several errors in previous manuscripts.
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Osana, H. Externalities do not necessarily require larger message spaces for realizing pareto-efficient allocations. Rev. Econ. Design 9, 227–269 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10058-005-0129-7
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10058-005-0129-7