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This paper studies how information control affects incentives for collusion and optimal organizational structures in …
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An uninformed sender designs a mechanism that discloses information about her type to a privately informed receiver, who then decides whether to act. I impose a single-crossing assumption, so that the receiver with a higher type is more willing to act. Using a linear programming approach, I...
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A fully committed sender seeks to sway a collective adoption decision through designing experiments. Voters have correlated payoff states and heterogeneous thresholds of doubt. We characterize the sender-optimal policy under unanimity rule for two persuasion modes. Under general persuasion,...
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We study a principal--agent model. The parties are symmetrically informed at first; the principal then designs the process by which the agent learns his type and, concurrently, the screening mechanism. Because the agent can opt out of the mechanism ex post, it must leave him with nonnegative...
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We study a receiver's learning problem of choosing an informative test in a signaling environment. Each test induces a signaling subgame. Thus, in addition to its direct effect on the receiver's information, a test has an indirect effect through the sender's signaling strategy. We show that the...
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We consider a Bayesian persuasion problem where a sender's utility depends only on the expected state. We show that upper censorship that pools the states above a cutoff and reveals the states below the cutoff is optimal for all prior distributions of the state if and only if the sender's...
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A sender sells an object of unknown quality to a receiver who pays his expected value for it. Sender and receiver might hold different priors over quality. The sender commits to a monotone categorization of quality. We characterize the sender's optimal monotone categorization, the optimality of...
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Learning is crucial to organizational decision making but often needs to be delegated. We examine a dynamic delegation … delegation as a dynamic mechanism design problem and characterize the optimal delegation scheme. We show that private learning … discuss implications on learning delegation for distinct organizations. …
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collusion-proof contracts with two properties. First, equilibrium payoffs to both the principal and the agents approach their …
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collusion-proof contracts with two properties. First, equilibrium payoffs to both the principal and the agents approach their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011599533