Participation

Gary Charness; Martin Dufwenberg

doi:10.1257/aer.101.4.1211

Participation

Gary Charness, Martin Dufwenberg

Economics

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We show experimentally that whether and how communication achieves beneficial social outcomes in a hidden-information context depends crucially on whether low-talent agents can participate in a Pareto-improving outcome. Communication is effective (and patterns of lies and truth quite systematic) when this is feasible, but otherwise completely ineffective. We examine the data in light of two potentially relevant behavioral models: cost-of-lying and guilt-fromblame.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1211-1237
Number of pages	27
Journal	American Economic Review
Volume	101
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.101.4.1211
State	Published - Jun 2011

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Economics and Econometrics

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