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Communicating subjective evaluations
Lang, Matthias - 2014
Should principals explain and justify their evaluations? Suppose the principal's evaluation is private information, but she can provide justification by sending a costly cheap-talk message. If she does not provide justification, her message space is restricted, but the message is costless. I...
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Behavioral aspects of communication in organizations
Casoria, Fortuna; Riedl, Arno; Werner, Peter - 2020
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 …
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Compliance in teams - implications of Joint decisions and shared consequences
Lohse, Tim; Simon, Sven A. - 2019
In today's business environment, team work is omnipresent. But might teams be more prone toward non-compliance with laws and regulations than single individuals despite imminent neg-ative consequences of uncovering misconduct? The recent prevalence of corporate delinquencies gives rise to this...
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Conversations
Köster, Mats; Voss, Paul - 2023
We develop a theory of conversations. Two agents with different interests take turns choosing the topic of the conversation. Talking about a single topic allows them to delve deeper, making the conversation more informative (or enjoyable). To capture this dynamic, we assume that the marginal...
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Social preferences, trust, and communication when the truth hurts
Gehle, Jonathan; Siemens, Ferdinand von - 2024
We investigate how heterogeneous social preferences affect the communication of painful information in social …
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Deceptive communication
Alempaki, Despoina; Burdea, Valeria; Read, Daniel - 2021
In cases of conflict of interest, people can lie directly about payoff relevant private information, or they can evade the truth without lying directly. We analyse this situation theoretically and test the key predictions in an experimental sender-receiver setting. We find senders prefer to...
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Honesty in virtual communication
Nieken, Petra; Walther, Sven - 2024
Remote work arrangements and increased virtual communication are commonplace. Particularly in organizations, virtual … communication has become an essential tool for collaboration and exchanging information. Virtual communication channels, such as … text or video messages, provide different levels of human presence compared to face-to-face communication. Given that human …
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Firm behavior during an epidemic
Brotherhood, Luiz Mário; Jerbashian, Vahagn - 2020
to fight against infections and can do so very effectively by increasing teleworking and rotating employees between on …-site work, teleworking, and leave. Subsidies to sick leave reduce the cost of sick workers and raise workplace infections …
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Taxes and telework : the impacts of state income taxes in a work-from-home economy
Agrawal, David R.; Brueckner, Jan K. - 2022
This paper studies the interstate effects of decentralized taxation and spending when individuals can work from home (WFH). Because WFH decouples population and employment, the analysis of tax impacts on state populations, employment levels, wages and housing prices is radically different than...
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Intercity impacts of workfrom-home with both remote and non-remote workers
Brueckner, Jan K.; Sayantani, S. - 2022
This paper summarizes the results from generalizing the simple two-city WFH model of Brueck-ner, Kahn and Lin (2021) through the addition of a group of non-remote workers, who must live in the city where they work. The results show that the main qualitative conclusions of BKL regarding the...
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