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 …

In dieser Note wird die Kommunikation zwischen einem informierten Experten, einem strategischen Mediator und einem … Mediator die Kommunikation sogar dann verbessern kann, wenn sein Bias und der Bias des Experten gleichgerichtet sind. Diese …This note reconsiders communication between an informed expert and an uninformed decision maker with a strategic …

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 …

experts with greater reputation for ability can more easily sway the beliefs of decision makers in a desired direction. Thus …, higher levels of reputation exacerbate the incentives of biased experts to misreport their private information. Decision … concerned about establishing a reputation for having accurate information. In this environment, the incentive of the expert to …

A decision-maker solicits information from two partially informed experts and then makes a choice under uncertainty …. The experts can be either moderately or extremely biased relative to the decision-maker, which is their private … information. I investigate the incentives of the experts to share their private information with the decision-maker and analyze …

of privately known competence, who cares about his reputation, chooses the timing of the forecast regarding the outcome …The paper studies a dynamic communication game in the presence of adverse selection and career concerns. A forecaster …. Further, any report hurts the forecaster’s reputation in the short run, with later reports incurring larger penalties. The …

of privately known competence, who cares about his reputation, chooses the timing of the forecast regarding the outcome …The paper studies a dynamic communication game in the presence of adverse selection and career concerns. A forecaster …. Further, any report hurts the forecaster's reputation in the short run, with later reports incurring larger penalties. The …