Arbeitspapier

Too cool for school? Signaling and countersignaling

In signaling environments ranging from consumption to education, high quality senders often shun the standard signals that should separate them from lower quality senders. We find that allowing for additional, noisy information on sender quality permits equilibria where medium types signal to separate themselves from low types, but high types then choose to not signal or countersignal. High types not only save costs by relying on the additional information to stochastically separate them from low types, but countersignaling itself is a signal of confidence which separates high types from medium types. Experimental results confirm that subjects can learn to countersignal.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Claremont Colleges Working Papers in Economics ; No. 1999-21

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Noncooperative Games
Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
Thema
signaling
countersignaling
understatement

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Feltovich, Nick
Harbaugh, Rick
To, Ted
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Claremont McKenna College, Department of Economics
(wo)
Claremont, CA
(wann)
1999

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Feltovich, Nick
  • Harbaugh, Rick
  • To, Ted
  • Claremont McKenna College, Department of Economics

Entstanden

  • 1999

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