Montreal Economic Theory Seminar
joint with the departments of economics of the universities of Montréal, Concordia and McGill as well as CIRANO
room C-6149 (U. de Montréal, Pavillon Lionel-Groulx, 3150, rue Jean-Brillant)
Organizer : Lars Ehlers (U. de Montréal)
ABSTRACT: A researcher wants to ask a decision-maker about a belief related to a choice the decision-maker made. When can the researcher provide incentives for the decision-maker to report her belief truthfully without distorting her choice? We identify which questions can be incentivized in this way in three canonical classes of problems. For these questions, we construct a simple mechanism the researcher can use.
