We model organizational decision making as costless pre-play communication. Decision making is called authoritarian if … over this set. The intuition is that authoritarian decision making avoids conflict, but sometimes creates insufficient …

We model organizational decision making as costless pre-play communication. Decision making is called authoritarian if … over this set. The intuition is that authoritarian decision making avoids conflict, but sometimes creates insufficient …

Crawford and Sobel (1982)'s model when the conflict of interest is small. This exercise allows us to deepen our understanding …

. Using a principal-agent model and understanding AI as signal production technology, I show that, within an organization …, higher accuracy of an AI's predictions reduces information asymmetries and fosters truthful communication. Detailed …

preventive wars when the power shift is smaller and when the rising state has the commitment power. Communication and repeated …

nodes in a communication network. However, communication through the network is noisy, which removes common knowledge about …

question is how the significance of the conflict affects social investments, market shares, production quantities, profits, and … social welfare. Methods / Approach: Conflict technology is described by contest success functions determining market shares … existence and its characteristics are described. Conflict adversely affects the profit of the inefficient firm while it …

Numerous studies suggest that communication may be a universal means to mitigate collective action problems. In this … study, we challenge this view and show that the communication structure crucially determines whether communication mitigates … or intensifies the problem of collective action. We observe the effect of different communication structures on …