insured individuals. Thus, the functioning of social norms depends crucially on information, in particular on what norm … enforcers are able to observe about an insured individual's behavior. Information is also decisive when distinguishing between …

literature, we find that there is a case where the receiver's prior knowledge enhances the amount of information conveyed via … receiver has imperfect private information of her own, the sender's message provides information about the true state as well … as about the reliability of the receiver's private information. This feature gives rise to the asymmetric response of the …

This paper analyzes optimal incentive contracts for information acquisition and revelation. A decision maker faces the … problem to design a contract that provides an expert with incentives to acquire and reveal information. We show that it is in … their recommendation is confirmed can be explained by incomplete information about the expert's cost to increase the …

general, the more the receiver is informed, the less information she can extract from the sender. In fact, when the receiver … is as informed as the sender, no information can be conveyed via cheap talk for an arbitrarily small preference bias …

literature, we find that there is a case where the receiver's prior knowledge enhances the amount of information conveyed via … the receiver has imperfect private information of her own, the sender's message provides information about the true state … as well as about the reliability of the receiver's private information. This feature gives rise to the asymmetric …

using a “one principal-two agent” context with real effort. We confirm the theoretical prediction that information …

communication of the payoff outcomes from past choices. This reflects both direct and indirect action-based information …

literature, we find that there is a case where the receiver's prior knowledge enhances the amount of information conveyed via … the receiver has imperfect private information of her own, the sender's message provides information about the true state … as well as about the reliability of the receiver's private information. This feature gives rise to the asymmetric …

communication of the payoff outcomes from past choices. This reflects both direct and indirect action-based information …

This paper considers a model of strategic information transmission with an imperfectly informed receiver and provides a … signals, we show that no information can be conveyed via cheap talk for an arbitrarily small degree of preference incongruence …