This paper discusses the role of secret versus public reserve prices when bidders’ valuations depend positively on the seller’s private signal. A public reserve price is announced before the auction starts, and a secret reserve price is disclosed after the highest bid has been reached. The...

A firm that must decide whether to retain or terminate a manager can rely on several sources of information to assess managerial ability. When it relies on a performance signal and monitoring, we show that a more informative signal can surprisingly increase the value of monitoring. Then, signal...

Protective measures against interrupted-sampling repeater jamming are vital for coherent wide band radar. In this paper, we propose a one-dimensional semi-parametric method for interrupted sampling repeater jamming suppression, which represents the target and jamming signal uniformly with...

We study the dominant separating equilibrium that maximizes the sender's payoff in quadratic signaling games. We relax the common and restrictive belief monotonicity assumption. We introduce a game characteristic called discriminant and show that there exists a linear incentive compatible...

We analyze the influence of the generalizations of hyperbolic (Cattaneo) heat equations (GCE) on temperature profile and photoacoustic signal for the two-layer samples. GCE extensions employ fractional-order derivatives related to the anomalous thermal diffusion in solid. We compare the...

When pricing homogeneous goods, artificial intelligence algorithms (AIAs) behave predictably, converging to Nash equilibria and marginal costs. This paper presents preliminary evidence that signal corruption can invert expected AIA behavior and elevate market price. We corrupt collections of our...

This paper applies the classic Spence (1973) signaling model to academic job market incentives. Researchers with heterogeneous skills use publications like a channel to signal their types to employers, and journals act as intermediaries for the message. I allow for a large class of objective...

Interpersonal networks can sustain cooperation among businesspeople, but how do potential entrants demonstrate their credibility and reliability? Taking a mix of approaches, we examine drinking at China’s business banquets, which entrants commonly practice to signal trustworthiness and...

Interpersonal networks can sustain cooperation among businesspeople, but how do potential entrants demonstrate their credibility and reliability? Taking a mix of approaches, we examine drinking at China’s business banquets, which entrants commonly practice to signal trustworthiness and...

Small extracellular vesicles (sEVs) are closely associated with physiological and pathological processes of a variety of diseases, such as osteosarcoma. Developing a simple and sensitive sEVs detection strategy is crucial to the in-deep study and clinical diagnosis of many disease. We developed...