?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.relation=https%3A%2F%2Fpublications.ut-capitole.fr%2Fid%2Feprint%2F22464%2F&rft.title=A+theory+of+experiments+%3A+invariance+of+equilibrium+to+the+strategy+method+of+elicitation+and+implications+for+social+preferences&rft.creator=Chen%2C+Daniel+L.&rft.creator=Schonger%2C+Martin&rft.subject=B-+ECONOMIE+ET+FINANCE&rft.description=Most+papers+that+employ+the+strategy+method+(SM)+use+many+observations+per+subject+to+study+responses+to+rare+or+off-equilibrium+behavior+that+cannot+be+observed+using+direct+elicitation+(DE)%2C+but+ignore+that+the+strategic+equivalence+between+SM+and+DE+holds+for+the+monetary+payoff+game+but+not+the+game+participants+actually+play%2C+which+is+in+terms+of+utilities.+To+illustrate+the+severity+of+this+issue%2C+we+formalize+the+mapping+from+the+monetary+payoff+game+to+this+actual+game.+A+theorem+provides+necessary+and+sufficient+conditions+for+strategic+equivalence+to+apply.+When+the+domain+of+preferences+includes+commonlymodeled+motivations%2C+such+as+intentions+or+disappointment+aversion%2C+or+less-common+ones%2C+such+as+self-image+or+duty%2C+strategic+equivalence+fails+and+thus+the+invariance+to+the+method+of+elicitation+does+not+apply.+We+use+results+from+the+past+literature+and+our+own+experiments+to+investigate+how+well+this+theorem+explains+when+results+with+SM+and+DE+differ.+We+manipulate+the+salience+of+off-equilibrium+considerations+in+our+own+experiments+to+demonstrate+that+SM+and+DE+are+not+strategically+equivalent%2C+contrary+to+conventional+wisdom.+Three+results+emerge.+First%2C+not+accounting+for+the+bias+in+the+estimation+when+decisions+at+one+information+set+can+influence+the+utility+at+another+information+set+can+render+significant+differences+in+decision-making.+Second%2C+the+bias+can+be+large+and+equivalent+to+some+of+the+other+causal+effects+being+measured.+Third%2C+subtle+interventions+on+salience+can+magnify+these+differences+by+a+similar+amount.&rft.publisher=TSE+Working+Paper&rft.date=2023-10-05&rft.type=Monograph&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.identifier=++Chen%2C+Daniel+L.+%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.idref.fr%2F241586631%3E+and+Schonger%2C+Martin++(2023)+A+theory+of+experiments+%3A+invariance+of+equilibrium+to+the+strategy+method+of+elicitation+and+implications+for+social+preferences.++TSE+Working+Paper%2C+n.+16-724%2C+Toulouse+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Ftse-fr.eu%2Fpub%2F31131&rft.language=en