Misrepresenting private information is often costly. This paper studies a model of strategic information transmission based on Crawford and Sobel (1982)(CS), but with a signaling dimension where there is a convex cost of misreporting. I identify a simple condition, called No Incentive to...

This paper develops a rational theory of momentum in elections with sequential voting. We analyze a two-candidate election in which some voters are uncertain about the realization of a state variable that can affect their preferences between the candidates. Voters receive private signals about...

We generalize the canonical problem of Nash implementation by allowing agents to voluntarily provide discriminatory signals, i.e. evidence. Evidence can either take the form of hard information or, more generally, have differential but non-prohibitive costs in different states. In such...