In contrast to the cheap talk literature, our laboratory experiment studies the impact of monetary incentives on real, costly and truthful communication effort choices. It investigates and confirms some predictions of the Dewatripont and Tirole's (2005) modes of communication model.The...

In this paper we tackle the ANOVA problem for directional data (with particular emphasison geological data) by having recourse to the Le Cam methodology usually reserved for linearmultivariate analysis. We construct locally and asymptotically most stringent parametric testsfor ANOVA for...

Understanding the factors that may impact how well universities are transforminga set of inputs into research outputs is of great interest for university andpublic authorities. The goal of this paper is on the one hand to measure the researchefficiencies of US universities and on the other hand...