2 papers
econ.TH2025
Checking Cheap Talk
Ian Ball, Xin Gao
We consider a sender-receiver game in which the receiver's action is binary and the sender's preferences are state-independent. The state is multidimensional. The receiver can sele…
econ.TH2023
Benefiting from Bias: Delegating to Encourage Information Acquisition
Ian Ball, Xin Gao
A principal delegates decisions to a biased agent. Payoffs depend on a state that the principal cannot observe. Initially, the agent does not observe the state, but he can acquire…