Torture

Jeff Ely and Sandeep Baliga ()
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Jeff Ely: Northwestern University

No 125, 2010 Meeting Papers from Society for Economic Dynamics

Abstract: We study the optimal dynamic torture scheme offered to an informed victim by a principal who cannot commit. We interpret the principal as the representative member of society (political leader, median voter etc.). We show that an arbitrarily long torture scheme is extremely costly to the principal, however great is the information held by the victim. Increasing the intensity of torture makes the principal worse off if the torture scheme is long enough.

Date: 2010
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