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Cellular technologies have become increasingly important in the developing world; infrastructure for mobile networks has expanded dramatically over the past two decades giving access to remote areas without previous phone service. Despite this expansion, relatively little is known about the...
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Do online communities segregate into separate conversations about “contestable knowledge”? We analyze the contributors of biased and slanted content in Wikipedia articles about U.S. politics, and focus on two research questions: (1) Do contributors display tendencies to contribute to topics...
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The role of data analysis in communication, persuasion, and decision-making is discussed. Some problems with current … data-analysis practice are presented, including communication, complex models, large data bases, one-pass processing, rigid …
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communication between subjects. In reality, however, altruism usually requires interaction between givers and receivers, which … altruism are built on human sociality. We experimentally examine communication in which one subject allocates $10 between … recipients had been able to ask, even when they were silent. We conclude that communication dramatically influences altruistic …
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The dynamic behavior of security prices is studied in a setting where two agents trade strategically and learn over time from market prices. The model introduces an information structure which is intended to capture the notion that information is difficult to interpret. Strategic interaction and...
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Empirical studies on information communication technologies (ICT) typically aggregate the "information" and … "communication" components together. We show theoretically and empirically that these have very different effects on the empowerment …' lower level agents. Conversely, technologies reducing communication costs substitute agent's knowledge for directions from …
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Social networks and social interactions affect individual and social norms. We develop a direct test of this using Dutch survey data on how respondents evaluate work disability of hypothetical people with some work related health problem (vignettes). We analyze how the thresholds respondents use...
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because decentralized trading impedes communication and, in so doing, opens the door to self-fulfilling beliefs despite the …
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Traditional human capital theory emphasizes a worker's investment in knowledge. However, when a worker is faced with day-to-day problems on the job, the solutions to the problems often require more knowledge from a team of experts within the firm. When a worker taps into the knowledge of...
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communication about future interest rate decisions based on information from the Internet and news sources. We apply the methodology … announcements, whereas longer-dated Treasuries mainly react to changes in policy communication. Using lower frequency data, we find …, we find communication to be a more important determinant of Treasury rates than contemporaneous policy rate decisions …
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