Arbeitspapier
Disguising Lies - Image Concerns and Partial Lying in Cheating Games
We study equilibrium reporting behavior in Fischbacher and Föllmi-Heusi (2013) type cheating games when agents have a fixed cost of lying and image concerns not to be perceived as a liar. We show that equilibria naturally arise in which agents with low costs of lying randomize among a set of the highest potential reports. Such equilibria induce a distribution of reports in line with observed experimental patterns. We also find that higher image concerns lead to an increase in the range of reported lies while the effect of the fixed cost of lying is the opposite.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 6347
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
Noncooperative Games
- Subject
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cost of lying
image concerns
cheating game
truth-telling
deception
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Khalmetski, Kiryl
Sliwka, Dirk
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
- (where)
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Munich
- (when)
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2017
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Khalmetski, Kiryl
- Sliwka, Dirk
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Time of origin
- 2017
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