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Spin doctors : an experiment on vague disclosure
Deversi, Marvin; Ispano, Alessandro; Schwardmann, Peter - 2021
Unfavorable news are often delivered under the disguise of vagueness. Our theory-driven laboratory experiment investigates this strategic use of vagueness in voluntary disclosure and asks whether there is scope for policy to improve information transmission. We find that vagueness is profitably...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191455
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Public discourse and socially responsible market behavior
Bartling, Björn; Valero, Vanessa; Weber, Roberto A.; … - 2020
We investigate the causal impact of public discourse on socially responsible market behavior. We conduct laboratory market experiments with products that differ in their production costs and social impact, and provide market actors and impacted third parties with the opportunity to discuss...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012263682
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Public discourse and socially responsible market behavior
Bartling, Björn; Valero, Vanessa; Weber, Roberto A.; … - 2020
We investigate the causal impact of public discourse on socially responsible market behavior. We conduct laboratory market experiments with products that differ in their production costs and social impact, and provide market actors and impacted third parties with the opportunity to discuss...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012271770
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Spin doctors : a model and an experimental investigation of vague disclosure
Deversi, Marvin; Ispano, Alessandro; Schwardmann, Peter - 2018
Unfavorable news are often delivered under the disguise of vagueness. But are people sufficiently naive to be fooled by such positive spin? We use a theoretical model and a laboratory experiment to study the strategic use of vagueness in a voluntary disclosure game. Consider a sender who aims at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011903726
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Processing Fluency and Investors’ Reactions to Disclosure Readability
Rennekamp, Kristina M. - 2012
The SEC's emphasis on the use of plain English is designed to make disclosures more readable and more informative. Using an experiment, I find that more readable disclosures lead to stronger reactions from small investors, so that changes in valuation judgments are more positive when news is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013114453
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Does Voluntary Disclosure of Polarizing Information Make Polarization Deeper? An Online Experiment on Russo-Ukrainian War
Chapkovski, Philipp; Zakharov, Alexei - 2023
Does the animosity toward a holder of an opposite political opinion or the behavior toward someone whose opinion on a divisive issue is unknown depends on whether that opinion was disclosed or withheld voluntarily? In order to study this question, we conducted a pre-registered study in Russia,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014257577
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Communication and market sharing : an experiment on the exchange of soft and hard information
Freitag, Andreas; Roux, Catherine; Thöni, Christian - 2019
We study the role of communication in collusive market sharing. In a series of Cournot oligopoly experiments with …. We find that the effect of communication on the firms' ability to collude depends on the type of information available … strategy, even if stated only once, drives this strong effect. Our results point to the types and contents of communication …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012134028
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De-biasing strategic communication?
Gesche, Tobias - 2016
This paper studies the effect of disclosing conflicts of interests on strategic communication when the sender has lying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420613
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De-biasing strategic communication
Gesche, Tobias - 2016 - Revised version
This paper studies the effect of disclosing conflicts of interests on strategic communication when the sender has lying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011490047
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The Market for Policy Communication
Swinnen, Johan F. M. - 2011
We develop a model of policy communication by aid agencies, NGOs and intergovernmental organizations and we show how … the need for fundraising affects the policy communication strategy of these organizations. To attract more funds …, organizations may bias their communication. The bias depends on the ex ante beliefs of donors and on mass media reporting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130704