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Communication and Information Sharing in Teams

Rothenberg, Naomi - 2015

This paper studies whether dissemination of private, pre-decision signals about productivity is valuable to the principal when agents work sequentially and observe each other’s effort. The benefit of dissemination is that when productivity states are correlated, each agent’s signal is useful...

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Dynamics of information exchange in endogenous social networks

Acemoglu, Daron; Bimpikis, Kostas; Ozdaglar, Asuman E. - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 9 (2014) 1, pp. 41-97

We develop a model of information exchange through communication and investigate its implications for information … to form a costly \textit{communication link} with, incurring the associated cost. After receiving a \textit …{private signal} correlated with the underlying state, they exchange information over the induced \textit{communication network} until …

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Strategic communication : an experimental investigation

Eckartz, Katharina; Ehses-Friedrich, Christiane - 2014

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. …

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Against all odds : tentative steps toward efficient information sharing in groups

Schlangenotto, Darius; Schnedler, Wendelin; Vadovič, … - In: Games 11 (2020) 3/31, pp. 1-24

When groups face difficult problems, the voices of experts may be lost in the noise of others' contributions. We present results from a "naturally noisy" setting, a large first-year undergraduate class, in which the expert's voice was "lost" to such a degree that bringing forward even more...

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News We Like to Share : How News Sharing on Social Networks Influences Voting Outcomes

Pogorelskiy, Kirill - 2019

More voters than ever get political news from their friends on social media platforms. Is this bad for democracy? Using context-neutral laboratory experiments, we find that biased (mis)information shared on social networks affects the quality of collective decisions relatively more than does...

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Dynamics of strategic information transmission in social networks

Förster, Manuel - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 14 (2019) 1, pp. 253-295

) equilibrium. Fully informative myopic and farsighted equilibria essentially take a particular simple form: all communication is … and analyze equilibrium welfare. Furthermore, we extend our model to public communication and investigate the implications …

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Communication with Unknown Perspectives

Sethi, Rajiv - 2016

Consider a group of individuals with unobservable perspectives (subjective prior beliefs) about a sequence of states. In each period, each individual receives private information about the current state and forms an opinion (a posterior belief). She also chooses a target individual and observes...

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Media Competition and Information Disclosure

Andina-Díaz, Ascensión - 2007

This paper analyzes an election game where self-interested politicians can exploit the lack of information that voters have about candidates' preferred policies in order to pursue their own agendas. In such a setup, we study the incentives of newspapers to acquire costly information, and how...

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Ideology without ideologists

Mechtenberg, Lydia (contributor) - 2007

Generally, Democrats do not increase military spending, and Republicans do not raise welfare payments. Mostly, ruling politicians stick to the manifesto of their party. The current paper provides a theoretical explanation for this phenomenon that does not assume politicians or voters to be...

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Misinterpretation and Misprediction in Communication

Miura, Shintaro - 2016

of the bias parameter is common knowledge, communication between the players may exhibit misinterpretation (i.e., the …

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