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Complex Questionnaires

In: MODELS OF BOUNDED RATIONALITY AND MECHANISM DESIGN

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  • Jacob Glazer
  • Ariel Rubinstein

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We study a principal-agent model in which the agent is boundedly rational in his ability to understand the principal's decision rule. The principal wishes to elicit an agent's true profile so as to determine whether or not to grant him a certain request. The principal designs a questionnaire and commits himself to accepting certain responses. In designing such a questionnaire, the principal takes into account the bounded rationality of the agent and wishes to reduce the success probability of a dishonest agent who is trying to game the system. It is shown that the principal can construct a sufficiently complex questionnaire that will allow him to respond optimally to agents who tell the truth and at the same time to almost eliminate the probability that a dishonest agent will succeed in cheating.

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  • Jacob Glazer & Ariel Rubinstein, 2016. "Complex Questionnaires," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: MODELS OF BOUNDED RATIONALITY AND MECHANISM DESIGN, chapter 7, pages 123-138, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
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    Keywords

    Bounded Rationality; Behavioral Economics; Implementation; Mechanism Design; Persuasion;
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    • E03 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General - - - Behavioral Macroeconomics

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