This paper reports on experiments regarding cheap talk games where senders attempt deception when their interests are …

I experimentally investigate how vague language changes the nature of communication in a biased strategic information … model showing that vague messages increase communication between boundedly rational players, especially if some senders are …

knowledge public knowledge. The experiment replicates the results of earlier experimental studies (Dickhaut et al., 1995, Cai … other hand the decision makers rely too much on the received information. Moreover, communication as well as payoffs … communication is less biased. In all treatments, however, the messages are more precise than theoretically predicted. …

We study communication in a static Cournot duopoly model under the assumption that the firms have unverifiable private … can communicate through a third party, communication can be informative even when it is not substantiated by any … commitment or costly actions. We exhibit a simple mechanism that ensures informative communication and interim Pareto dominates …