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Information control in reputational cheap talk

Anbarci, N.; Ghosh, S.P.; Roy, J.

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S.P. Ghosh

J. Roy



Abstract

An evaluator estimates as precisely as possible the innate talent of a careerist expert by observing the expert's performance in a prediction task, and has the ability to interfere with the expert's private signal by affecting its precision. The expert on the other hand knows her talent, observes this interference and can misrepresent private beliefs through strategic predictions to enhance her reputation. We show that when priors are significantly uninformative so that the task is a priori hard, the evaluator reduces the precision of the expert's signal, while when priors are significantly informative, he enhances it. We also find that the evaluator's objectives of maximising the precision of information about talent and maximising the probability of ‘truthful expert advice’ in the given task are aligned in and only in a priori hard tasks. We discuss implications of these results for market research decisions by a monopolist facing uncertain demand.

Citation

Anbarci, N., Ghosh, S., & Roy, J. (2017). Information control in reputational cheap talk. Games and Economic Behavior, 106, 153-160. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2017.09.010

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Nov 18, 2016
Online Publication Date Sep 29, 2017
Publication Date Sep 29, 2017
Deposit Date Aug 16, 2018
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Games and Economic Behavior
Print ISSN 0899-8256
Publisher Elsevier
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 106
Pages 153-160
DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2017.09.010
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1322808

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