Выступление Егора Артемова (University of Melbourne) на тему "Strategic "Mistakes": Implications for Market Design Research"

28 июня 2017 г. в НИУ ВШЭ состоялось внеочередное заседание общемосковского научного семинара "МАТЕМАТИЧЕСКИЕ МЕТОДЫ АНАЛИЗА РЕШЕНИЙ  В ЭКОНОМИКЕ, БИЗНЕСЕ И ПОЛИТИКЕ".

Докладчик: Georgy Artemov (University of Melbourne)


Краткое описание доклада
A field data from Australian college admissions shows that  a non-negligible fraction of applicants  choose strategies (or rank-ordered lists) that are unambiguously dominated, but that the majority of these ``mistakes'' are payoff irrelevant. In keeping with this result, we develop a theory suggesting that the presence of such mistakes jeopardizes  the identification method based on  truthful reporting hypothesis under a (seemingly) strategy-proof mechanism,  but leaves the method based on  weaker stability condition relatively unscathed. Monte Carlo simulation further confirms this point and quantifies the differences between these two methods in the structural estimation of preference parameters and in a hypothetical counterfactual analysis.