Similar Search Results

The Subjective Inflation Expectations of Households and Firms: Measurement, Determinants, and Implications

Weber, Michael; D’Acunto, Francesco; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2022

Households' and firms' subjective inflation expectations play a central role in macroeconomic and intertemporal microeconomic models. We discuss how subjective inflation expectations are measured, the patterns they display, their determinants, and how they shape households' and firms' economic...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351930

Identity, Communication, and Conflict: An Experiment

Bhaumik, Sumon K.; Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Dimova, Ralitza - 2023

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

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296764

Physicians Treating Physicians: Relational and Informational Advantages in Treatment and Survival

Chen, Stacey H.; Chen, Jennjou; Chuang, Hongwei; Lin, … - 2023

We use the medical specialties of physician-patients with advanced cancer to study the role of knowledge versus networks in treatment choices and patient survival by matching comparable patients with doctors and admission periods to control unobserved doctor quality. Physician-patients are less...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296792

The Impact of Insufficient Sleep on the Serial Reproduction of Information

Dickinson, David L.; Drummond, Sean P.A. - 2024

Story telling is part of life, and the retelling of stories is an important form of communication, cultural practice …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533895

Deception and incentives: how dishonesty undermines effort provision

Ederer, Florian; Fehr, Ernst - 2007

In this paper we show that subtle forms of deceit undermine the effectiveness of incentives. We design an experiment in which the principal has an interest in underreporting the true performance difference between the agents in a dynamic tournament. According to the standard approach, rational...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268559

Agency and communication in IMF conditional lending: theory and empirical evidence

Marchesi, Silvia; Sabani, Laura; Dreher, Axel - 2009

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269064

The Effect of Communication Channels on Promise-Making and Promise-Keeping

Conrads, Julian; Reggiani, Tommaso - 2014

This paper investigates the effect of different communication channels on promise-making and promise-keeping in a … helping situation. Four treatments differ with respect to the communication channel employed to solicit unincentivized … cooperation, i.e., face-to-face, phone call and two different sorts of computer-mediated communication. The less anonymous (face …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010435265

Communication and Trust in Principal-Team Relationships: Experimental Evidence

Kleine, Marco; Kube, Sebastian - 2015

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

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010481654

Communication and Coordination in a Two-Stage Game

Bjedov, Tjaša; Madiès, Thierry; Villeval, Marie Claire - 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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513229

Equality Concerns and the Limits of Self-Governance in Heterogeneous Populations

Gangadharan, Lata; Nikiforakis, Nikos; Villeval, Marie … - 2015

Mechanisms to overcome social dilemmas provide incentives to maximize efficiency. However, often – such as when agents are heterogeneous – there is a trade-off between efficiency and equality. Agents' concerns for equality in such instances can limit the ability of mechanisms to promote...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401649