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Getting it right : communication, voting, and collective truth finding
Burdea, Valeria; Woon, Jonathan - 2023
and statements, and we investigate whether communication improves information aggregation and the accuracy of group … decisions. Our findings suggest that the effect of communication depends on the underlying accuracy of individual judgments …. Communication improves accuracy when individuals tend to be incorrect, but diminishes it when individuals are likely to be correct …
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Communication and behavior in organizations : an experiment
Evdokimov, Piotr; Garfagnini, Umberto - 2018
communication, we also find systematic deviations from optimal behavior in how the communicated information is used. Specifically …
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Communication within firms: evidence from CEO turnovers
Impink, Stephen Michael; Prat, Andrea; Sadun, Raffaella - 2021
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Communicating subjective evaluations
Lang, Matthias - 2018
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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Communicating preferences to improve recommendations
Habibi, Amir - 2023
) private information with sequential, two-way communication. In the first stage, the buyer communicates her private preferences …
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Deceptive communication : direct lies vs. ignorance, partial-truth and silence
Alempaki, Despoina; Burdea, Valeria; Read, Daniel - 2023
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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Everyday econometricians : selection neglect and overoptimism when learning from others
Barron, Kai; Huck, Steffen; Jehiel, Philippe - 2019
There are many important decision problems where learning through experimentation is costly or impossible. In these situations, individuals may try to learn from observing the outcomes of others who have made similar decisions. Often, however, information about others comprises a selected...
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Economic uncertainty and subjective inflation expectations
Rossmann, Tobias - 2019
Measuring economic uncertainty is crucial for understanding investment decisions by individuals and firms. Macroeconomists increasingly rely on survey data on subjective expectations. An innovative approach to measure aggregate uncertainty exploits the rounding patterns in individuals' responses...
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Spin doctors : an experiment on vague disclosure
Deversi, Marvin; Ispano, Alessandro; Schwardmann, Peter - 2021
Unfavorable news are often delivered under the disguise of vagueness. Our theory-driven laboratory experiment …
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Is it good to talk? : Information disclosure and organisational performance in the UK ; incorporating evidence submitted on the DTI discussion paper 'high performance workplace - i...
Peccei, Riccardo; Bewley, Helen; Gospel, Howard F.; … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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