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and a potentially pathological sign. The distinction between needs and requirements provides a new and solid ground on … which we can discuss the quality of human needs, which is, according to Keynes, a key concept to define what the economic …
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unverifiable information and the quality of communication depends on the conflict of interests between the government levels. It is …
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This paper explores the role of information transmission in explaining donors' choice between project aid and budget support. Budget support increases the involvement of recipient governments in the decision-making process and can thus be an example of a delegation-scheme. Conversely, project...
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We study how different forms of communication influence the inflation expectations of individuals in a randomized …
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networks, such coordination may be very difficult to achieve and may depend on the communication technology and the network … structure. We examine how pre-play communication and clustering within networks affect coordination in a challenging … outcome in our game, but restricted communication (where subjects can only indicate their intended action) is almost entirely …
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Modern communication technologies enable efficient exchange of information, but often sacrifice direct human … interaction inherent in more traditional forms of communication. This raises the question of whether the lack of personal … that self-selection into communication channels can be used to screen for dishonest people. …
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Unfavorable news are often delivered under the disguise of vagueness. But are people sufficiently naive to be fooled by such positive spin? We use a theoretical model and a laboratory experiment to study the strategic use of vagueness in a voluntary disclosure game. Consider a sender who aims at...
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We examine the effect of personal, two-way communication on the behavior of borrowers, who have fallen behind on their … suggest that the form of communication significantly affects borrowers’ payment behavior. …
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We focus on the role that the transmission of information between a multilateral (the IMF) and a country has for the optimal design of conditional reforms. Our model predicts that when agency problems are especially severe, and/or IMF information is valuable, a centralized control is indeed...
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This paper characterizes geometrically the set of all Nash equilibrium payoffs achievable with unmediated communication …
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