each other through links in a social network. The designer relies on this word-of-mouth communication channel to diffuse …

We study the role of communication in repeated games with private monitoring. In such games, players receive only noisy … equilibria with "cheap talk" that result in nearly efficient payoffs, whereas all equilibria without such communication are … bounded away from this outcome. Thus, in our model, communication is necessary for cooperation …

. Private information is (conditionally) correlated across players, and communication is cheap talk. We show that with two …

study by Morris argued that analysts' (experts') reputational concerns may discourage truthful communication when they try … on communication in a setting where analysts can choose their precision endogenously. Because both misaligned and aligned …

Official reports and case studies reveal that China experienced different means of communication with the world powers … since it joined the World Trade Organization in 2001. In the first five years, China had public communication with both the … United States and the European Union under the Transitional Review Mechanism. In 2006 a new means of communication, the China …

This paper deals with the effects of different modes of communication in a costless information transmission … having two senders and one receiver. The communication of senders is simultaneous in the first, sequential in the second and … one sender becomes insignificant in our two-sender model regardless of the mode of communication. However, as to the …

We studied how communication media affect trust game play. Three popular media were considered: traditional face …-to-face, Facebook groups, and anonymous online chat. We considered post-communication changes in players' expectations and preferences …, and further analyzed the contents of group communications to understand the channels though which communication appears to …

This paper studies the effect of disclosing conflicts of interest on strategic communication when the sender has lying …