We study a situation in which a leader tries to induce followers to invest in a joint venture. This venture has three key properties: (1) returns are uncertain, (2) investments are complements, so investment is generally only profitable when the followers coordinate on investing, and (3)...

The paper formalizes Warner's (1965) randomized response technique (RRT) as a game and implements it experimentally, thus linking game theoretic approaches to randomness in communication with survey practice in the field and a novel implementation in the lab. As predicted by our model and in...