informative for intermediate conflicts of interest. Finally, we introduce the possibility of certification. We show that, if the … costs of certification are low, the expert can fully reveal her evidence regardless of the conflict of interest. …

In an information transmission situation, a sender's concern for its credibility could endow itself with an invisible …, the sender can achieve its favored outcome without losing its credibility, which stays true even when the sender and the … receiver have contradictory preferences. Therefore, the sender's concern for its credibility could result in less truthful …

In an information transmission situation, a senders concern for its credibility could endow itself with an invisible … power to control the detected. In this case, the sender can achieve its favored outcome without losing its credibility … its credibility could result in less truthful signals from the sender and worse payoffs to the receiver. This is the …