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Lang, Matthias - 2012 - this version: August 2013

Should principals explain and justify their evaluations? In this paper the principal's evaluation is private information, but she can provide justification by sending a costly cheap-talk message. I show that the principal explains her evaluation to the agent if the evaluation turns out to be...

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Communicating Subjective Evaluations

Lang, Matthias - 2013

Should principals explain and justify their evaluations? In this paper the principal's evaluation is private information, but she can provide some justifications by sending a costly message. Indeed, it is optimal for the principal to explain her evaluation to the agent if and only if the...

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Communication and voting in heterogeneous committees : an experimental study

Le Quement, Mark T.; Marcin, Isabel - 2016

We study experimentally the effectiveness of communication in common value committees exhibiting publicly known … heterogeneous agents. These predict varying degrees of strategic communication. We use a 2 x 2 design varying the information … protocol (communication vs exogenous public signals) and the group composition (heterogeneous vs homogeneous). Results are only …

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Wondering how others interpret it : social value of public information

Gizatulina, Alia - 2013 - This version: April 2013

signals in the way that they suspect others are doing it. Consequently, the negative impact of public communication noted by … public signal at all, which suggests that there is a scope to "obliterate" public communication in a specific way, by making …, desirability for such obliteration and non-commonality of signals' understanding. -- transparency ; central bank communication …

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Morality and conflict

Schmidt, Dorothee - 2005

In recent debates, morality or social norms have been proposed as an instrument to reduce conflict behavior. As the argument goes, moral people will not engage in socially not-tolerated behavior or, less so than amoral people. Analyzing this question in the framework of contest theory, we find...

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Mitigating the shadow of conflict: the role of social and human capital for the reduction of conflicts

Schmidt, Dorothee - 2007

One possible solution to mitigate the negative influences of conflict which has been proposed in the literature is to subject the relevant parties to education. Education can take two forms: increasing an individual's human capital on the one hand, increasing her social capital on the other...

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Organising co-existence in cyberspace : content regulation and privacy compared

Engel, Christoph - 2002

The Internet globalizes the world. National regulatory autonomy shrinks. Transferring data from one country to another is almost costless. Foreign content is just a click away. Why is it that states have been able to re-install co-existence in some policy areas, and not in others? In data...

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