1 option
Strategyproofness-Exposing Mechanism Descriptions / Yannai A. Gonczarowski, Ori Heffetz, Clayton Thomas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gonczarowski, Yannai A.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w31506.
- NBER working paper series no. w31506
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2023.
- Summary:
- A menu description presents a mechanism to player i in two steps. Step (1) uses the reports of other players to describe i's menu: the set of i's potential outcomes. Step (2) uses i's report to select i's favorite outcome from her menu. Can menu descriptions better expose strategyproofness, without sacrificing simplicity? We propose a new, simple menu description of Deferred Acceptance. We prove that--in contrast with other common matching mechanisms--this menu description must differ substantially from the corresponding traditional description. We demonstrate, with a lab experiment on two elementary mechanisms, the promise and challenges of menu descriptions.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- July 2023.
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.