reduces the incentives to exert effort in R&D activities. Then, drawing on the signaling role of patents highlighted by the …

in a signaling-extended prisoner's dilemma. We identify a new type of evolutionary equilibrium - a transitional … behavior, preferences, and signaling. We thereby offer an explanation for persistent regularities observed in laboratory and … signaling costs between 'conditional cooperators' and 'opportunists.' Indeed, and quite surprisingly, a transitional equilibrium …

' later signaling their private information to rivals. Due to signaling, equilibrium prices are distorted, and so while firms …, compared with firms that do not attempt to manipulate rivals' beliefs, signaling firms acquire less precise information. An …

In signaling environments ranging from consumption to education, high quality senders often shun the standard signals …

for cooperation to be part of an asymptotically stable equilibrium of an evolutionary dynamics of signaling norm … internalization, behavior and norm adoption. These conditions put the signaling costs of norm-adopters and non-adopters, the strength …

The paper enriches a standard signaling model of education with issues of social distance defined over educational …