- Date4 June 2024
- Time 11h00 - 12h30
- Room Auditorium 5
Abstract
This paper combines dynamic mechanism design with collective experimentation. Agents are heterogeneous in that some stand to benefit from a proposed policy reform, while others are better off under the status quo policy. Each agent's private information regarding her reference type accrues only gradually, over time. A principal seeks a mechanism that maximizes the agents' joint welfare, while providing incentives for the agents to truthfully report their gradually acquired, private information. The first-best policy may not be incentive compatible, as uninformed agents may have an incentive to prematurely vote for a policy instead of waiting for their private signal. Under the second-best policy, the principal can incentivise truth-telling by setting a deadline for experimentation, delaying the implementation of the policy reform, and keeping agents in the dark regarding others' reports.
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