Empirical strategy-proofness
Theoretical Economics
2020-07-08 v5 Computer Science and Game Theory
Abstract
We study the plausibility of sub-optimal Nash equilibria of the direct revelation mechanism associated with a strategy-proof social choice function. By using the recently introduced empirical equilibrium analysis (Velez and Brown, 2019, arXiv:1804.07986) we determine that this behavior is plausible only when the social choice function violates a non-bossiness condition and information is not interior. Analysis of the accumulated experimental and empirical evidence on these games supports our findings.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1907.12408,
title = {Empirical strategy-proofness},
author = {Rodrigo A. Velez and Alexander L. Brown},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.12408},
year = {2020}
}