Der politische, gesellschaftliche und mediale Umgang mit Lebensmittelkrisen, insbesondere mit der BSE-Krise, dokumentiert eindruckvoll, dass die bisher praktizierten Formen der Ernährungskommunikation gescheitert sind, und zeigt auf, dass eine neue Kommunikationsstrategie erforderlich ist. Um...

We develop a model of policy communication by aid agencies, NGOs and intergovernmental organizations and we show how the need for fundraising affects the policy communication strategy of these organizations. To attract more funds, organizations may bias their communication. The bias depends on...

This paper studies the effect of disclosing conflicts of interests on strategic communication when the sender has lying costs. I present a simple economic channel under which such disclosure often leads to more biased messages. This hurts receivers who are naive or delegate their choice while...

We study the role of communication in collusive market sharing. In a series of Cournot oligopoly experiments with multiple markets and repeated interaction, we vary the types of information that firms can exchange. We distinguish between hard information-verifiable information about past...

I provide a general framework of firms' financial communication process and investor response to information, moving from disclosure through dissemination to investor response and management response. I then discuss the entrance of social media into firm communications, highlighting both classic...

We consider a Sender-Receiver game in which the Sender can choose between sending a cheap-talk message, which is costless, but also not verified and a costly verified message. While the Sender knows the true state of the world, the Receiver does not have this information, but has to choose an...