We consider a cheap talk game with a sender who has a reputational concern for an ability to predict a state of the world correctly, and where receivers may misunderstand the message sent. When communication between the sender and each receiver is private, we identify an equilibrium in which the sender only discloses the least noisy information. Hence, what determines the amount of information ...

W e augmentthe standard Crawford-Sobel(Econometrica 1 982) modelofcheap talkcommunication byallowingthe informed party tousebothcostlessandcostlymessages.Theissuesonwhichwefocus aretheconsequences forcheap talksignalingoftheoption tousea costlysignal(\ burnedmoney");thecircumstances underwhichboth cheap talkandburnedmoneyareusedtosignalinformation;andthe extenttowhichburningmoneyis thepreferred...

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This paper describes our experiments of using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to generate (counter-)facts from texts for certain namedentities. We give the human annotators a paragraph of text and a highlighted named-entity. They will write down several (counter-)facts about this named-entity in that context. The analysis of the results is performed by comparing the acquired data with the recognizing ...

CheapTalk with Random Stopping is a Cheap-Talk game in which after each period of communication, with probability 1 >., the talk ends and the players play the original game (i.e, choose actions and receive payoffs). In this paper the relations between Cheap-Talk games and Cheap-Talk with Random Stopping are analyzed. -Institute of Mathematics and Center for Rationality and Interactive Decision ...

This paper shows that in some bargaining games, cheap talk must matter: the unique neologism-proof equilibrium involves informative talk. A simple tradeoff makes both equilibrium talk and neologisms credible: by saying that he is interested in trading, the buyer encourages the seller to continue to bargain but receives poorer terms of trade if trade occurs. All tj^pes of both parties are (weakl...

Why do political candidates who are largely office-motivated sometimes espouse views that are non-congruent with those of their electorate? Can non-congruent statements convey any information to voters about what a politician will do if elected, and if so, why would voters elect a politician who makes such statements? We develop a model of credible costless and non-binding communication in elec...

In the classic Crawford-Sobel (CS) model of strategic communication between an informed Sender and uninformed Receiver, perfect information transmission is never achieved as an equilibrium outcome. I present a modified version of the CS cheap talk game with the following two innovations: (i) both players take actions, and (ii) actions are strategic substitutes. In contrast to the CS setup, the ...

Polymorphism, along with inheritance, is one of the most important features in object-oriented languages, but it is also one of the biggest obstacles to source code comprehension. Depending on the run-time type of the receiver of a message, any one of a number of possible methods may be invoked. Several algorithms for creating accurate call-graphs using static analysis already exist, however, t...