Credulity, lies, and costly talk

DOI10.1016/j.jet.2006.04.003zbMath1156.91322OpenAlexW3122778752MaRDI QIDQ2373768

Francesco Squintani, Navin Kartik, Marco Ottaviani

Publication date: 16 July 2007

Published in: Journal of Economic Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jet.2006.04.003

zbMATH Keywords

signaling cheap talk lying deception naive receivers full revelation inflated communication misreporting costs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Noncooperative games (91A10) Signaling and communication in game theory (91A28)

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