invest in pairwise active communication (speaking) and pairwise passive communication (listening). This leads to a full … that foster communication (especially active communication); and the discrepancy between formal hierarchy and actual …

We develop a theory of conversations. Two agents with different interests take turns choosing the topic of the …

send more informative messages under communication than predicted by the pure strategy equilibria. This finding neither … mixed strategy equilibrium under communication, which strictly outperforms optimal restricted delegation and is relatively …

likely model and seeks to communicate it to a decision maker, but cannot prove it. As a result, communication about models is …

Organizations design their communication structures to improve decision-making while limiting wasteful influence … activities. An efficient communication protocol grants completeinformation payoffs to all organization members, thereby … strategies before being consulted. Under these assumptions, "public advocacy" is the unique efficient communication protocol …

Organizations design their communication structures to improve decision-making while limiting wasteful influence … activities. An efficient communication protocol grants complete information payoffs to all organization members, thereby … strategies before being consulted. Under these assumptions, “public advocacy” is the unique efficient communication protocol …

We enrich the Crawford and Sobel (1982) model of strategic communication between an informed sender and an uninformed …