König, Tobias; Kübler, Dorothea; Mechtenberg, Lydia; … - 2019
Pathak and Sönmez (2008) who show that sophisticated agents are better off under the Boston mechanism than under a strategy …-proof mechanism if some agents are sincere. We use lab experiments to study the preferences of subjects for the Boston mechanism or … of ignorance and spectators. As predicted, stakeholders vote for the Boston mechanism if it maximizes their payoffs and …