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communication, we also find systematic deviations from optimal behavior in how the communicated information is used. Specifically …
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Consider managers evaluating their employees' performances. Should managers justify their subjective evaluations? Suppose a manager's evaluation is private information. Justifying her evaluation is costly but limits the principal's scope for distorting her evaluation of the employee. I show that...
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) private information with sequential, two-way communication. In the first stage, the buyer communicates her private preferences …
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In cases of conflict of interest, people can lie directly or evade the truth. We analyse this situation theoretically and test the key behavioural predictions in a novel sender-receiver game. We find senders prefer to deceive through evasion rather than direct lying, more so when evasion is a...
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Empirical studies on information communication technologies (ICT) typically aggregate the informationʺ and …" lower level agents. Conversely, technologies reducing communication costs substitute agent's knowledge for directions from … workers) are associated with more autonomy and a wider span of control. By contrast, communication technologies (like data …
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This paper shows that inventors with an early patenting success have a higher inventive productivity during their remaining career. We use European patent data for a period of 32 years for 1240 German inventors. The patent data are linked with survey data that provide information on an extensive...
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