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While a certain amount of information <em>x<\/em> needs to be communicated just for computing the outcome of a certain social-choice function, an <em>additional<\/em> amount of communication may be required for computing the equilibrium-supporting payments (if exist).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our main result shows that the total amount of information required for this task can be greater than <em>x<\/em> by a factor linear in the number of players <em>n<\/em>, i.e., \\(n\\cdot x\\)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(under a common normalization assumption). This is the first known lower bound for this problem. In fact, we show that this result holds even in single-parameter domains. On the positive side, we show that certain classic economic domains, namely, single-item auctions and public-good mechanisms, only entail a small overhead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the presence of self-interested parties, mechanism designers typically aim to implement some social-choice function in an equilibrium. This paper studies the cost of such equilibrium requirements in terms of communication. 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