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 …

send more informative messages under communication than predicted by the pure strategy equilibria. This finding neither … mixed strategy equilibrium under communication, which strictly outperforms optimal restricted delegation and is relatively …