other hand the decision makers rely too much on the received information. Moreover, communication as well as payoffs … communication is less biased. In all treatments, however, the messages are more precise than theoretically predicted. …

We study communication in a static Cournot duopoly model under the assumption that the firms have unverifiable private … can communicate through a third party, communication can be informative even when it is not substantiated by any … commitment or costly actions. We exhibit a simple mechanism that ensures informative communication and interim Pareto dominates …

-reducing trade skirmishes. The DSP is interpreted as an impartial arbitrator that announces its opinion about the state of the world …

-reducing trade skirmishes. The DSP is interpreted as an impartial arbitrator that announces its opinion about the state of the world …

Transnational technical standard-setting has grown in prominence in recent years. The World Trade Organization (WTO …

We compare communication about private information to communication about actions in a one-shot 2-person public good …

identical for both sender and receiver. Additionally, the sender incurs a communication cost which is increasing in the … applied to the case where communication is costless but preferences diverge. Additionally, we model the competency of the … decreasing in the likelihood of the mistake. When the preferences between players diverge and when there are communication costs …

We compare communication about private information to communication about actions in a one-shot 2-person public good …

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