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Game-theoretic analyses of communication rely on beliefs – especially, the receiver’s belief about the truth status of an utterance and the sender’s belief about the reaction to the utterance – but research that provides measurements of such beliefs is still in its infancy. Our...
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Informal exchange of information among competitors has been well-documented in a variety of industries, and one … stronger effect on information ows than reducing environmental uncertainty (about the competitor's ability). We further show …
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We investigate the elasticity of moral ignorance with respect to monetary incentives and social norm information. We … from small negative to small positive monetary incentives. By contrast, while social norms strongly favor information …
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Matching markets can be unstable when individuals prefer to be matched to a partner who also wants to be matched with them. Through a pre-registered and theory-guided laboratory experiment, we provide evidence that such reciprocal preferences exist, significantly decrease stability in matching...
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Interactions between players with private information and opposed interests are often prone to bad advice and …
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Information unraveling is an elegant theoretical argument suggesting that private information may be fully and …. Altogether, we find more information unraveling with the new design, but there is clear evidence that other-regarding preferences …
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We study how framing interplays with information design. Whereas Sender conceives all contingencies separately … first decides whether to refine Receiver’s frame and then designs an information structure for the chosen frame. Sender … faces a trade-off between keeping Receiver under the coarse frame — thus concealing part of the information structure — and …
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We investigate experimentally whether individuals or groups are more lied to, and how lying depends on the group size and the monetary loss inflicted by the lie. We employ an observed cheating game, where an individual's misreport of a privately observed number can monetarily benefit her while...
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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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This paper studies individual truth-telling behavior in the presence of multiple lying opportunities with heterogeneous stake sizes. The results show that individuals lie downwards (i.e. forgo money due to their lie) in low-stakes situations in order to signal honesty, and thereby mitigate the...
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