Protocol 3 Preregistration: Enforcement Opacity and the Limits of Regulatory Constraint Design
Abstract
Protocol 3 of the Constraint-Ethics-Necessity MARL research program. Tests whether epistemic opacity in enforcement — specifically, a hidden penalty schedule unobservable to agents — disrupts the virtue theater gaming strategy identified in Protocol 2. Three conditions: unconstrained control, stochastic penalty (3A), and hidden schedule (3B). Penalty schedule locked via SHA-256 prior to experimental runs. Part of the Delta-Variable Theory research program. Parent study: 10.5281/zenodo.18929040
Fields of Study & Subjects
Game Theory and Applications
Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Publication date
- 18 March 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Preprint