Data and code for: Behavioral Constraints on the Design of Subgame-Perfect Implementation Mechanisms

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Ernst Fehr, Department of Economics, Zurich University; Michael Powell, Strategy Department, Kellogg School of Management; Tom Wilkening, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne

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Name	File Type	Size	Last Modified
S1-S4 SPI_Low_Fee			10/21/2020 11:35:PM
S11-S12 SPI_Pilot			10/21/2020 11:35:PM
S13-S16 SPI with No False Challenge (SPI_Asy_NoFalseChallenge)			10/21/2020 11:35:PM
S17-S20 SPI Mechanism (SPI_Baseline)			10/21/2020 11:35:PM
S21-S24 RS with Intense Training (RS_ITT)			10/21/2020 11:35:PM
S25-S28 RS (RS_Baseline)			10/21/2020 11:35:PM
S29-S32 SPI with Intesne Training (RS_ITT)			10/21/2020 11:35:PM
S33 and S34 No Mechanism Benchmark Treatment			10/21/2020 11:35:PM
S5-S10 SPI_Buyer_Advantage			10/21/2020 11:35:PM

Project Description

Summary: These files contain the analysis code, data, experimental code, and experimental instructions for the journal article "Behavioral Constraints on the Design of Subgame-Perfect Implementation Mechanisms," American Economic Review.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: Implementation Theory; Incomplete Contracts; Experiments

JEL Classification:
      C92 Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Group Behavior
      D23 Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights
      D71 Social Choice; Clubs; Committees; Associations
      D86 Economics of Contract: Theory

Universe: Students over the age of 18 at Melbourne University.

Data Type(s): experimental data; survey data

Methodology

Response Rate: Participants were recruited until the required number of participants in a session was achieved. Typically we sent out 550 emails to fill a session with 27 slots. This corresponds to a response rate of about 5%. Of the 27 participants who signed up, between 22 and 25 participants typically arrived on the day of the experiment.

Sampling: Participants were invited randomly from a pool of more than 5000 volunteers using ORSEE. For each session we invited a subset of 200 and allowed these individuals 3 days to respond. We then added additional groups of 50 volunteers until the session was filled. The sequential sampling approach was used to ensure that we did not only recruit individuals who were fast at signing up to emails.

We recruited 27 subjects for a session that required 20 participants. If more than 20 participants showed up, we would randomly select the participants who were brought into the experiment and those that were paid a show-up fee and dismissed.

The sample was restricted to participants who had not participated in earlier sessions of this experiment, sessions of Aghion, Holden, Fehr, and Wilkening (2018), or sessions of Chen, Holden, Kunimoto, Sun, and Wilkening (2020).

Collection Mode(s): other

Scales: In some sessions, the Personal Norms of Reciprocity (PNR) survey developed by Peruigini et al. (2003) was run.

Unit(s) of Observation: Two-person groups, Individuals

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