Implementation in Environments with Complete Information (Now published as 'Implementation, Contracts and Renegotiation in Environments with Complete Information' in J-J Laffont (ed.), Advances in Economic Theory: Invited Papers to the World Congress of the Econometric Society, vol.I (1992), pp.182-282.)
Published 1991
There are two parts to this paper. Part One introduces the subject of implementation, and provides applications (in particular, to the theory of contracts). This part is written so as to be accessible to the general reader. Part Two surveys the literature, and is somewhat more formal.