Social Norms, Bounded Rationality and Optimal Contracts

Suren Basov is a visitor to the Centre for Economics and Financial Econometrics at Deakin University, Australia. His research interests lie in the areas of mechanism design, with a particular emphasis on multidimensional screening models, the theory of bounded rationality, and evolutionary game theory. He also does research in the areas of directed search and unemployment, and incentive provision within clubs, with a particular application to Islamic finance.

Chapter 1 Preface.- Part I Mechanism Design under Bounded Rationality.- Chapter 2 Introduction.- Chapter 3 Complexity constraints and mechanism design.- Chapter 4 Learning, probabilistic choice, and mechanism design.- Chapter 5 Some other models of mechanism design under bounded rationality.- Chapter 6 Conclusions.- Part II Social Norms and Mechanism Design.- Chapter 7 Peer Pressure and Agency Relationship.- Chapter 8 Statistical Mechanics of High Performing Working Systems.- Chapter 9 Optimal contracting in social environment.- Part III Lessons learnt and directions for future research.