Essays on costly and truthful communication

Olivier Body

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Abstract: Based on three essays, this Ph.D. thesis studies costly and truthful communication in the following situation: a sender (S) tries to convince a receiver (R) to accept a project.

Before communication, both agents do not know the project quality. On the one hand, they believe with probability α that the project is of high quality and will raise R’s payoff by r_H, and otherwise that it is of low quality and will decrease R’s payoff by

Keywords: Communication -- Economic aspects; Project management; Communication -- Aspect économique; Gestion de projet; experiment; communication; information (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 1 v. (x, 137 p.)
Date: 2014-01-20
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Note: Degree: Doctorat en Sciences économiques et de gestion
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