This paper presents models of criticism, communication and debate in public environment, focusing on the types of …

“cheap talk” via 3D world audio communication and 2D text messaging. I also analyze the effects of technical information … richness, experience with a communication medium, social distance and collective orientation on cooperation. The findings … show a higher degree of cooperation when engaging in cheap-talk computer-mediated-communication. The results show also that …

, however the sender can improve communication, at a cost, by increasing the complexity or elaborateness of the message. As is … standard in the communication literature, the sender learns the state of the world then sends a message to the receiver. The … expected, we find that larger communication costs are associated with worse outcomes for both sender and receiver. Consistent …

This paper experimentally investigates free-riding behavior on communication cost in a coordination game and finds … strong indications of such free-riding. Firstly, the subjects tend to wait for others to send a message when communication is … costly, which does not happen when communication is costless. Secondly, the proportion of games where no communication takes …

We study the framing effects of communication in multiparty bargaining. Communication has been shown to be more … endogenous framing effects may outweigh any overall social utility effects due to the mere presence of communication. In two …

The paper presents a positive model of communication in federal legislatures to study the incentives of members to … consideration, communication between delegates generally suffers from a bias that make truthful revelation difficult and sometimes …-)centralization, which revisits Oates' decentralization theorem in a world of incomplete information and strategic communication. Empirical …