Theory predicts that committees of experts may take decisions that look good but are bad and that they show a united … assessments. We investigate this theory in the lab, using treatments with and without reputation concerns and with and without … cheap-talk communication with evaluators. We use the chat among committee members to learn about, e.g., their beliefs about …

We provide a game theoretic analysis of how power shapes the clarity of communication. We analyze information … by an experiment. Finally, we show how partial information transmission can lead to communication failure, and show how …