Incentives in experiments with objective lotteries

Yaron Azrieli, Christopher Chambers and Paul J. Healy ()
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Paul J. Healy: The Ohio State University

Experimental Economics, 2020, vol. 23, issue 1, No 1, 29 pages

Abstract: Abstract Azrieli et al. (J Polit Econ, 2018) provide a characterization of incentive compatible payment mechanisms for experiments, assuming subjects’ preferences respect dominance but can have any possible subjective beliefs over random outcomes. If instead we assume subjects view probabilities as objective—for example, when dice or coins are used—then the set of incentive compatible mechanisms may grow. In this paper we show that it does, but the added mechanisms are not widely applicable. As in the subjective-beliefs framework, the only broadly-applicable incentive compatible mechanism (assuming all preferences that respect dominance are admissible) is to pay subjects for one randomly-selected decision.

Keywords: Experimental design; Decision theory; Mechanism design (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C90 D81 D84 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/s10683-019-09607-0

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