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other hand the decision makers rely too much on the received information. Moreover, communication as well as payoffs … communication is less biased. In all treatments, however, the messages are more precise than theoretically predicted. …
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The paper presents a positive model of communication in federal legislatures to study the incentives of members to … consideration, communication between delegates generally suffers from a bias that make truthful revelation difficult and sometimes …-)centralization, which revisits Oates' decentralization theorem in a world of incomplete information and strategic communication. Empirical …
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Why are some people more optimistic about their life than others? Literature on locus of control suggests that optimism is associated with the belief that one’s life outcomes are controlled by internal factors, such as ability, instead of external factors, such as powerful others or...
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communication flows serve as important channels of diffusion. The analysis is based on examining the productivity effects of R …
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Detailed notes on weekly meetings of the sugar-refining cartel show how communication helps firms collude, and so …
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Numerous studies suggest that communication may be a universal means to mitigate collective action problems. In this … study, we challenge this view and show that the communication structure crucially determines whether communication mitigates … or intensifies the problem of collective action. We observe the effect of different communication structures on …
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Large public bureaucracies are commonly regarded as less efficient than modern private corporations. This paper explores how the degree of discretionary power might account for this difference in efficiency. Indeed, increasing the discretionary power of the intermediate layers of an organization...
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