We focus on the role that the transmission of information between a multilateral (the IMF) and a country has for the … information is valuable, a centralized control is indeed optimal. To the contrary, when local knowledge is more important than the … the countries' authorities, openness, and transparency, consistently with the theory …

Human communication in organizations often involves a large amount of gossiping about others. Here we study in an … gossip, and that noisy gossip (where information transmission from third parties to trustors can fail) still increases … efficiency, but less so than if information transmission is undisturbed …

. Information is shared more when communication is anonymous and we find no evidence of more sharing with subjects who have similar …SMS information campaigns are increasingly used for policy. We conduct a field experiment to study information sharing … this non-rival information with other exogenously assigned subjects unknown to them. We find that few participants redeem …

of objective information. Moreover, we document that subjects, who received more bad signals, downplay the ego … when presented with objective information …

We investigate experimentally the effects of information about native/immigrant identity, and the ability to … British and Immigrant subjects in the UK we find that neither information about identity nor communicating self … of the extent they involve conflict over time. Overall, the results indicate that inter-personal communication may help …

We study how upward communication – from workers to managers – about individual efforts affects the effectiveness of … the source and degree of information about individual efforts between treatments, we see that precise knowledge about …' self-assessments can be a problematic tool to gather this information …

We study the impact of communication on behavior in a two-stage coordination game with asymmetric payoffs. We test … sustain coordination over time and alleviate the inequality induced by the asymmetry of payoffs. Third, communication …

under secrecy. This occurs despite subjects revealing more information under transparency than theory predicts … concerned committee members receive private information of different type-dependent accuracy, deliberate and vote. We study … affects information aggregation at the deliberation and voting stages, leading to sharply different committee error rates than …

This paper studies the influence of information on entry choices in a competition with a controlled laboratory … experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition … productivity. Information on the opponent is a promising nudge to raise individuals' awareness towards the complexity of the …