Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5059627 | Economics Letters | 2013 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
Is it possible to elicit reliable assessment from an assessor having a conflict of interest (e.g. a professor that writes a recommendation letter for a formal PhD student)? We propose an experimental test and show that compared to a not-incentivized assessment, a promise to give a truthful assessment reduces misreporting to the same extent as an incentivized assessment (i.e. when the assessor gains higher payoff if the assessment is correct).
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Authors
Mitesh Kataria, Fabian Winter,