models of political participation, dynamic inter-group trade, and communication - leading to cycles of political polarization …, breakdown of trade, and breakdown of communication …

We present a theory of ethnic conflict in which coalitions formed along ethnic lines compete for the economy …

comparable to themselves to be the most persuasive. Incorporating communication dynamics can take the influential social learning …

attacks. This did not happen in other comparable cities. These destabilized communication patterns were associated with …

We develop a model of information exchange through communication and investigate its implications for information … a costly communication link with incurring the associated cost. After receiving a private signal correlated with the … underlying state, they exchange information over the induced communication network until taking an (irreversible) action. We …

We provide a selective survey of empirical evidence on the effects as well as the drivers of persuasive communication … response to persuasive communication? In particular, we distinguish information-based models from preference-based models …

Over the last two decades, communication has become an increasingly important aspect of monetary policy. These real …-world developments have spawned a huge new scholarly literature on central bank communication -- mostly empirical, and almost all of it … written in this decade. We survey this ever-growing literature. The evidence suggests that communication can be an important …