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Power and the privilege of clarity : an analysis of bargaining power and information transmission
Groot Ruiz, Adrian de; Offerman, Theo; Onderstal, Sander - 2012
We provide a game theoretic analysis of how power shapes the clarity of communication. We analyze information transmission in a cheap talk bargaining game between an informed Sender and an uninformed Receiver. Theoretically, we find that the maximum amount of information that can be transmitted...
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Habitual communication
Ioannidis, Konstantinos - 2022
Many everyday activities are habitual. Among the most common human activities is communication. If people primarily communicate in a common-interests environment, they may form habits of truth-telling and believing messages. If they primarily communicate in a conflicting-interests environment,...
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Naïve learning in social networks with random communication
Heidergott, Bernd; Huang, Jiaping; Lindner, Ines - 2018
We study social learning in a social network setting where agents receive independent noisy signals about the truth … network does not privilege any agent in terms of influence, a large society almost always fails to converge to the truth. We …
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Naϊve learning in social networks with fake news : bots as a singularity
Badri, Saeed; Heidergott, Bernd; Lindner, Ines - 2022
We study the impact of bots on social learning in a social network setting. Regular agents receive independent noisy … signals about the true value of a variable and then communicate in a network. They na¨ıvely update beliefs by repeatedly … taking weighted averages of neighbors' opinions. Bots are agents in the network that spread fake news by disseminating biased …
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Do more powerful interest groups have a disproportionate influence on policy?
Sharif, Zara; Swank, Otto H. - 2012
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Consumers networks and search equilibria
Galeotti, Andrea - 2004
I examine a search model a la' Burdett and Judd (1983). Consumers are embedded in a consumers network, they may costly … social welfare increase as the consumers network becomes denser. These results are reverse when search costs are high. …
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Simultaneous search and network efficiency
Gautier, Pieter; Holzner, Christian - 2011
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Telecommunications networks and new diffusion mechanisms : regional and industrial variations in network externalities
Capello, Roberta; Nijkamp, Peter - 1995
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Why are residents reluctant to consult attending physicians?
Swank, Otto H. - 2009
A physician performs two tasks: making diagnoses and determining treatments. To reduce medical error, residents are supposed to consult their supervisors when they face uncommon circumstances. However, recent research shows that residents are reluctant to do so. This paper presents a model that...
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Policy makers, advisors, and reputation
Wrasai, Phongthorn; Swank, Otto H. - 2004
When hiring an adviser (he), a policy maker (she) often faces the problem that she has incomplete information about his preferences. Some advisers are good, in the sense that their preferences are closely aligned to the policy maker's preferences, and some advisers are bad. Recently, some...
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