Arbeitspapier
Meaningful talk
In economics, the standard approach to language is that talk is cheap. Here, instead, language is a social convention that affects utility. Unless language is used in its ordinary sense, it cannot help to coordinate actions because there is no way of decoding it. This points to a unique informative equilibrium where words are used in their ordinary sense in natural language. Misrepresentation costs may eliminate uninformative, babbling, equilibria. More generally, meaningful talk provides a concrete mechanism through which consistent expectations are generated in Nash equilibria.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Serie Documentos de Trabajo ; No. 443
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
- Thema
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cheap talk
symbols
meaning
encoding-decoding
common priors
Nash equilibria
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Streb, Jorge M.
Torrens, Gustavo
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Universidad del Centro de Estudios Macroeconómicos de Argentina (UCEMA)
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Buenos Aires
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2011
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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20.09.2024, 08:20 MESZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Streb, Jorge M.
- Torrens, Gustavo
- Universidad del Centro de Estudios Macroeconómicos de Argentina (UCEMA)
Entstanden
- 2011