Qin, Botao - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 14 (2020) 2020-11, pp. 1-15
This paper explores whether a truth-telling promise can work to reduce the hypothetical bias in preference elicitation. Using an induced value experiment in China with a random nth-price auction, the author finds: 1) Hypothetical bias exists in a random nth-price auction with induced values and...