Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/174416 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2017-07
Publisher: 
University of Massachusetts, Department of Economics, Amherst, MA
Abstract: 
This paper investigates the robustness of Dutta and Sen's (2012) Theorem 1 to weaker notions of truth-telling. An individual honesty standard is modeled as a subgroup of the society, including the individual herself, for which she feels truth-telling concerns. An individual i is honest when she states her true preferences as well as rankings (not necessarily complete) of outcomes that are consistent with the true preferences of individuals in her honesty standard. The paper offers a necessary condition for Nash implementation, called partial-honesty monotonicity, and shows that in an independent domain of preferences that condition is equivalent to Maskin monotonicity.
Subjects: 
Nash implementation
partial-honesty
non-connected honesty standards
independent domain
JEL: 
C72
D71
D82
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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