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Ederer, Florian; Min, Weicheng - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

How does lie detection constrain the potential for one person to persuade another to change her action? We consider a model of Bayesian persuasion in which the Receiver can detect lies with positive probability. We show that the Sender lies more when the lie detection probability increases. As...

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Home Production, Market Production and the Gender Wage Gap : Incentives and Expectations

Albanesi, Stefania - 2006

The purpose of this paper is to study the joint determination of gender differentials in labor market outcomes and in the household division of labor. Specifically, we explore the hypothesis that incentive problems in the labor market amplify differences in earnings due to gender differentials...

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Property Rights and Intra-Household Bargaining

Wang, Shing-Yi - 2013

This paper examines whether an individual-level transfer of property rights increases the individual's bargaining power within the household. The question is analyzed in the context of a housing reform that occurred in China that gave existing tenants the opportunity to purchase the homes that...

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Parental Monitoring and Children's Internet Use : The Role of Information, Control, and Cues

Gallego, Francisco - 2017

This paper explores how parental information and control can influence children's internet use in Chile. We designed … (i) specific information about their children's internet use, and/or (ii) encouragement and assistance with the … parental behavior and reduces children's internet use by 6-10 percent. Second, we do not find significant impacts from helping …

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Beliefs of Others : an Experiment

Agranov, Marina; Detkova, Polina - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We study how people think others update their beliefs upon encountering new evidence. We find that when two individuals share the same prior, one believes that new evidence cannot systematically shift the other's beliefs in either direction (Martingale property). When the two have different...

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Equilibrium Conditions for Catch-22 Situations

Gans, Joshua - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This is a paper in the ``economists ruin everything'' field. It considers whether Catch-22 situations can persist as an equilibrium phenomenon. Rather than being an arbitrary rule or a set of self-serving beliefs, the focus is on the preferences of Gatekeepers who choose to create such...

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Information Dynamics and Equilibrium Multiplicity in Global Games of Regime Change

Angeletos, George-Marios - 2004

Global games of regime change -- that is, coordination games of incomplete information in which a status quo is abandoned once a sufficiently large fraction of agents attacks it -- have been used to study crises phenomena such as currency attacks, bank runs, debt crises, and political change. We...

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Two-sided Altruism and Signaling

Genicot, Garance - 2015

This paper shows that when donors and recipients care about each other --two-sided altruism -- the presence of asymmetry of information about the donor's income leads very naturally to a signaling game. A donor who cares about the recipient's welfare has incentives to appear richer than he is...

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Financial Markets where Traders Neglect the Informational Content of Prices

Eyster, Erik - 2015

We present a model of a financial market where some traders are "cursed" when choosing how much to invest in a risky asset, failing to fully take into account what prices convey about others' private information. Cursed traders put more weight on their private signals than rational traders. But...

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Information Acquisition in Rumor Based Bank Runs

He, Zhiguo - 2012

We study information acquisition and dynamic withdrawal decisions when a spreading rumor exposes a solvent bank to a run. Uncertainty about the bank's liquidity and potential failure motivates depositors who hear the rumor to acquire additional noisy signals. Depositors with less informative...

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