Secure Survey Design in Organizations: Theory and Experiments
研究组织环境中如何设计调查以克服报复恐惧导致的真实回答困难，理论预测随机应答技术无效而硬性扭曲能改善信息传递，实验室实验验证了部分结论。
We study secure survey designs in organizational settings where fear of retaliation makes it hard to elicit truth. Theory predicts that (i) randomized-response techniques offer no improvement because they are strategically equivalent to direct elicitation, (ii) exogenously distorting survey responses (hard garbling) can improve information transmission, and (iii) the impact of survey design on reporting can be estimated in equilibrium. Laboratory experiments confirm that hard garbling outperforms direct elicitation but randomized response works better than expected. False accusations slightly but persistently bias treatment effect estimates. Additional experiments reveal that play converges to equilibrium if learning from others’ experience is possible.