This note reconsiders communication between an informed expert and an uninformed decision maker with a strategic … mediator in a discrete Crawford and Sobel (1982) setting. We show that a strategic mediator may improve communication even when … he is biased into the same direction as the expert. The mediator improves communication, however, only if some …

in quantity and quality of output. We use data from a controlled field experiment that changed the communication of the …

optimal design of conditional reforms. Our model predicts that when agency problems are especially severe, and/or IMF … agency bias we expect delegation to dominate. Controlling for economic and political factors, our empirical tests show that …

in quantity and quality of output. We use data from a controlled field experiment that changed the communication of the …

optimal design of conditional reforms. Our model predicts that when agency problems are especially severe, and/or IMF … agency bias we expect delegation to dominate. Controlling for economic and political factors, our empirical tests show that …

optimal design of conditional reforms. Our model predicts that when agency problems are especially severe, and/or IMF … agency bias we expect delegation to dominate. Controlling for economic and political factors, our empirical tests show that …

Employers structure pay and employment relationships to mitigate agency problems. A large literature in economics … agency in employment relationships relies on highly stylized assumptions regarding human motivation, e.g., that employees … behavioral complexity and realism into models of agency within organizations. Specifically, we assess the insights gained by …