Strategic Communication with Reporting Costs
35 Pages Posted: 27 Jan 2016 Last revised: 30 Jun 2020
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Strategic Communication with Reporting Costs
Strategic Communication with Reporting Costs
Date Written: January 27, 2016
Abstract
A decision-maker relies on information of parties affected by her decision. These parties try to influence her decision by selective disclosure of facts. As is well known from the literature, competition between the informed parties constrains their ability to manipulate information. We depart from this literature by introducing a cost to communicate. Our parties trade off their reporting cost against the effect on the decision. Typically, they never reveal all information. A better outcome may be implemented if the decision-maker adopts an active stance by barring one party from reporting or through cheap talk allowing coordination on a particular equilibrium.
Keywords: disclosure, persuasion, active judging, adversarial, inquisitorial
JEL Classification: D82, K41
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