Extending economic design to non-market settings: An experimental study of mechanism design with intention-based preferences

机制设计是经济理论的工程学方面，它从关于人性的假设开始，并根据这些假设构建最佳效率最大化的经济系统。这个项目在实验环境中研究机制设计，在实验环境中，个人表现出对那些对他们友好的人友好的愿望，而对那些没有善待他们的人不友好。这种偏好在许多非市场环境中很常见，可能会对潜在机制的效率产生重大影响。该项目的最终目标是开发出对这种基于意图的偏好中的异质性具有很强抵抗力的应用机制，并可用于双边交流、合同设计和许多其他非市场环境。

Mechanism design is the engineering side of economic theory, which starts with assumptions regarding human nature and builds economic systems to best maximise efficiency according to these assumptions. This project studies mechanism design in experimental settings where individuals exhibit a desire to be kind to those who have been kind to them and unkind to those who have not. Such preferences are common in many non-market settings and can have dramatic effects on the efficiency of potential mechanisms. The ultimate goal of this project is to develop applied mechanisms that are robust to heterogeneity in such intention-based preferences and which can be used in bilateral exchange, contract design and many other non-market settings.