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Divide and conquer : noisy communication in networks, power, and wealth distribution
Pérez Oviedo, Wilson - 2004
nodes in a communication network. However, communication through the network is noisy, which removes common knowledge about …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600156
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Eliciting information from a committee
Zapechelnyuk, Andriy - 2012
The paper addresses the mechanism design problem of eliciting truthful information from a committee of informed experts who collude in their information disclosure strategies. It is shown that under fairly general conditions full information disclosure is possible if and only if the induced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009517819
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Cheap talk with correlated signals
Chand, A. K. S.; Currarini, Sergio; Ursino, Giovanni - 2013
informed senders. Private information is (conditionally) correlated across players, and communication is cheap talk. For the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010189326
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Information design in multi-stage games
Makrēs, Miltiadēs; Renou, Ludovic - 2018
obtain in any (sequential) communication equilibrium of any expansion of multi-stage games, i.e., when players can receive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872424
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Competition in signaling
Vaccari, Federico - 2022
I study a multi-sender signaling game between an uninformed decision maker and two senders with common private information and conflicting interests. Senders can misreport information at a cost that is tied to the size of the misrepresentation. The main results concern the amount of information...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013463788
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Efficient communication in organizations
Vaccari, Federico - 2022
Organizations design their communication structures to improve decision-making while limiting wasteful influence … activities. An efficient communication protocol grants completeinformation payoffs to all organization members, thereby … strategies before being consulted. Under these assumptions, "public advocacy" is the unique efficient communication protocol …
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Rent seekers in rentier states : when greed brings peace
Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Naghavi, Alireza - 2010
Are natural resources a source of conflict or stability? Empirical studies demonstrate that rents from natural resources, and in particular oil, are an important source of civil war. Allegedly, resource rents attract rent seekers, which destabilize society. However, there is a large literature...
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Using the law to change the custom
Aldashev, Gani; Chaara, Imane; Platteau, Jean-Philippe; … - 2010
We build a simple model of legal dualism in which a pro-poor legal reform, under certain conditions, causes the conflicting custom to go some way toward producing the change intended by the legislator. It then acts as an "outside anchor" that exerts a "magnet effect" on the custom. We illustrate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008729246
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Group bargaining and conflict
Quérou, Nicolas - 2010
We consider a situation where groups negotiate over the allocation of a surplus (which is used to fund group specific goods). Each group is composed of agents who have differing valuations for public goods. Members choose a representative to take decisions on their behalf. Specifically,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008747115
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The grand experiment of communism : discovering the trade-off between equality and efficiency
Farvaque, Étienne; Mihailov, Alexander; Naghavi, Alireza - 2011
This paper aims to explain the rise and fall of communism by exploring the interplay between economic incentives and social preferences in different economic systems. We introduce inequality-averse and inefficiency-averse agents responding to economic incentives and transmitting their ideology...
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