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Paper #1759

Títol:
Toxic types and infectious communication breakdown
Autors:
Kfir Eliaz i Alexander Frug
Data:
Desembre 2020
Resum:
We introduce a new channel for breakdown of cheap talk communication between an informed sender and an uninformed receiver. Our framework has the following novel feature: conditional on interacting, both parties agree on the optimal action in each state, but there are sender types with which the receiver prefers not to interact. We show that for a broad class of preferences, any interval equilibrium induces only finitely many actions in the support of the receiver's strategy. We also show that introducing a second stage with noisy signals on the sender type has a dramatic effect on the firststage communication.
Paraules clau:
Cheap talk, contagion
Codis JEL:
D83.
Àrea de Recerca:
Microeconomia

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