The Strategic Role of Nonbinding Communication

This paper studies the conditions that improve bargaining power using threats and promises. We develop a model of strategic communication, based on the conflict game with perfect information, in which a noisy commitment message is sent by a better-informed sender to a receiver who takes an action th...

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Main Authors: Luis A. Palacio, Alexandra Cortés-Aguilar, Manuel Muñoz-Herrera
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2015-01-01
Series:Journal of Applied Mathematics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/910614