Many real-world problems such as sales and healthcare regulation involve a principal, multiple intermediaries, and agents with hidden characteristics. In these problems, intermediaries compete through offering menus of multifaceted consumption bundles to agents, whereas the principal is limited to regulating sub-aspects of the sold bundles by legal, informational and administrative barriers. We study how the principal can implement through intermediaries any social choice rule that is incentive compatible and individually rational for agents. When intermediaries have private values, intermediated implementation can be achieved by a per-unit fee schedule that allows intermediaries to break even under the target social choice rule. When intermediaries have interdependent values, per-unit fee schedules cannot generally be used to achieve implementation, whereas regulating the distribution over sub-aspects can under general conditions about the target allocation.
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