the trustor. This means that communication increases trustworthiness irrespective of the content of messages. …

This paper focuses on sharing the costs and revenues of maintaining a public network communication structure ….Revenues are assumed to be bilateral and communication links are publicly available but costly.It is assumed that agents are … located at the vertices of an undirected graph in which the edges represent all possible communication links.We take the …

When truth conflicts with efficiency, can verbal communication destroy efficiency? Or are lies or vagueness used to … prisoners’ dilemma. Without verbal communication, efficiency is achieved, with contributions for high or intermediate values …. We show experimentally that, when communication about the value must be precise, the leader frequently lies, preserving …

We compare communication about private information to communication about actions in a one- shot 2-person public good …

into account. This misalignment hampers communication between patient and doctor, e.g. the patient may overstate the …