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Negotiating Cooperation Under Uncertainty : Communication in Noisy, Indefinitely Repeated Interactions

Dvorak, Fabian - 2018

Case studies of cartels and recent theory suggest that repeated communication is key for stable cooperation in … environments where signals about others' actions are noisy. However, empirically the exact role of communication is not well … understood. We study cooperation under different monitoring and communication structures in the laboratory. Under all monitoring …

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Agency and Communication in IMF Conditional Lending : Theory and Empirical Evidence

Marchesi, Silvia - 2014

We focus on the role that the transmission of information between a multilateral (the IMF) and a country has for the optimal design of conditional reforms. Our model predicts that when agency problems are especially severe, and/or IMF information is valuable, a centralized control is indeed...

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Social Distance and Trust : Experimental Evidence from a Slum in Cairo

Binzel, Christine - 2013

While strong social ties help individuals cope with missing institutions, trade is essentially limited to those who are part of the social network. We examine what makes the decision to trust a stranger different from the decision to trust a member of a given social network (a friend), by...

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It Hurts to Ask

Bénabou, Roland; Jaroszewicz, Ania; Loewenstein, George - 2022

We analyze the offering, asking, and granting of help or other benefits as a three-stage game with bilateral private information between a person in need of help and a potential help-giver. Asking entails the risk of rejection, which can be painful: since unawareness of the need can no longer be...

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Competing with Asking Prices

Lester, Benjamin - 2013

variety of real world markets, asking prices have received little attention in the academic literature. We construct an …

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Communication and Trust in Principal-Team Relationships : Experimental Evidence

Kleine, Marco - 2015

We study how upward communication – from workers to managers – about individual efforts affects the effectiveness of …

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Communication and Coordination in a Two-Stage Game

Bjedov, Tjasa - 2015

We study the impact of communication on behavior in a two-stage coordination game with asymmetric payoffs. We test … sustain coordination over time and alleviate the inequality induced by the asymmetry of payoffs. Third, communication …

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Strategic Ignorance in Bargaining

Conrads, Julian - 2011

In his classic article "An Essay on Bargaining" Schelling (1956) argues that ignorance might actually be strength rather than weakness. We test and confirm Schelling's conjecture in a simple take-it-or-leave bargaining experiment where the proposer can choose between two possible offers. Option...

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Identity, Communication, and Conflict : An Experiment

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Chowdhury, Subhasish; Dimova, Ralitza - 2023

of the extent they involve conflict over time. Overall, the results indicate that inter-personal communication may help …

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Gossip and the Efficiency of Interactions

Fehr, Dietmar - 2016

Human communication in organizations often involves a large amount of gossiping about others. Here we study in an …

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