observed by the incumbent and some fraction of informed consumers. This leads to price signalling rivalry between the … outcome. -- Quality uncertainty ; Signalling ; Oligopoly …

receiver's inference about their type. We reestablish revenue equivalence when bidders' signaling concerns are linear, and the … auction makes participation observable via an entry fee. With convex signaling concerns, optimal auctions are fully … transparent: every standard auction, which reveals all bids yields maximal revenue. With concave signaling concerns there is no …

This paper studies the implications of agents signaling their moral type in a lying game. In the theoretical analysis …, a signaling motive emerges where agents dislike being suspected of lying and where some types of liars are more …