Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/56659 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
SFB 649 Discussion Paper No. 2011-012
Publisher: 
Humboldt University of Berlin, Collaborative Research Center 649 - Economic Risk, Berlin
Abstract: 
This note reconsiders communication between an informed expert and an uninformed decision maker with a strategic mediator in a discrete Crawford and Sobel (1982) setting. We show that a strategic mediator may improve communication even when he is biased into the same direction as the expert. The mediator improves communication, however, only if some information transmission is possible with unmediated communication.
Subjects: 
communication
information
cheap talk
mediation
JEL: 
C72
D82
D83
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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