This paper studies the implications of agents signaling their moral type in a lying game. In the theoretical analysis …, a signaling motive emerges where agents dislike being suspected of lying and where some types of liars are more … particular on partial lying, where some agents dishonestly report a non payoff-maximizing report. I discuss the relationship with …

empirically in a large scale online experiment and in the laboratory. In both experiments, the second mover's lying propensity …Recent literature has shown that lying behavior in the laboratory can well be explained by a combination of lying costs … and reputation concerns. We extend the literature on lying behavior to strategic interactions. As reciprocal behavior is …