Arbeitspapier

A strategy-proof mechanism should be announced to be strategy-proof: An experiment for the Vickrey auction

We conduct laboratory experiments for the Vickrey auction with and without an announcement on strategy-proofness to subjects. Although the rate of truth-telling among the subjects stays at 20% without the announcement, it increases to 47% with the announcement. Moreover, by conducting experiments for the pay-your-bid auction, which is not strategy-proof, with and without advice, we find that our experimental results are not attributed to so-called experimenter demand effects. Strategy-proof mechanisms are sometimes criticized because players often fail to find the benefit of truth-telling, but our observations tell that introducing an educative announcement helps them behave "correctly".

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: ISER Discussion Paper ; No. 1048

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Auctions
Social Choice; Clubs; Committees; Associations
Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis
Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
Thema
advice effect
strategy-proofness
Vickrey auction
pay-your-bid auction
market design

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Masuda, Takehito
Sakai, Toyataka
Serizawa, Shigehiro
Wakayama, Takuma
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Osaka University, Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
(wo)
Osaka
(wann)
2019

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Masuda, Takehito
  • Sakai, Toyataka
  • Serizawa, Shigehiro
  • Wakayama, Takuma
  • Osaka University, Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)

Entstanden

  • 2019

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