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. …

find that cities with higher levels of mortality during the Great Influenza of 1918-1919 subsequently expanded hospital …

of the hospital from a fringe institution to one essential to the practice of medicine. Despite the central role of …. In this paper, we explore how access to the hospital and modern medicine affects mortality. We do so by leveraging a … combination of novel data and a unique quasi-experiment: a large-scale hospital modernization program introduced by The Duke …

We compare the causal effects of forward guidance communication about future interest rates on households' expectations … of inflation, mortgage rates, and unemployment to the effects of communication about future inflation in a randomized …

death), hospital utilization, and medical expenditure in Greece during the period 1995 - 2010. The estimates indicate that … increases in the number of hospital days. Real per capita pharmaceutical expenditure increased rapidly during this period, but … 62% of the increase in pharmaceutical expenditure was offset by a reduction in hospital expenditure attributable to …

deciding as a group member. We observe a strong dishonesty shift. This shift is mainly driven by communication within groups …

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 …

This paper reviews experimental studies that investigate the effects of communication on be-havior in organizational … research that tests whether com-munication can help to overcome coordination failure within organizations, and (b) studies that … analyze the role of communication in alleviating problems arising from information asym-metries at the workplace. The evidence …