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This paper reports on experiments testing the viability of markets for cheap talk information. We find that the poor quality of the information transmitted leads to a collapse of information markets. The reasons for this are surprising given the previous experimental results on cheap-talk games....
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choices from a laboratory experiment. The equilibrium predicts that the large battlefield receives more than a proportional …
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projects have demonstrated that the mechanism is efficiency enhancing. Our experiment tests whether the mechanism remains …
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choices from a laboratory experiment. The equilibrium predicts that the large battlefield receives more than a proportional …
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This paper explores how a seller should transmit product information to bidders with horizontally differentiated preferences. Under cheap-talk, we show that, in an informative equilibrium, the seller provides less precise information for more popular product attributes. Second, for any given...
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We study cheap-talk pre-play communication in the static all-pay auctions. For the case of two bidders, all correlated … and communication equilibria are payoff equivalent to the Nash equilibrium if there is no reserve price, or if it is … robust to preplay communication between the bidders. If there are three or more symmetric bidders, or two symmetric bidders …
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A mediator, with no prior information and no control over the market protocol, attempts to redesign the information structure in the market by running an information intermediation mechanism with transfers that first elicits information from an agent, and then discloses information to another...
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probability in the communication game, and this creates an externality (which can be either positive or negative) for the designer …. The optimal disclosure policy depends on both the communication technology and the correlation between the contestants … sufficiently high. These results are in a stark contrast with the no communication benchmark …
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