【主讲】Wooyoung Lim (副教授，香港科技大学)
【主题】Mediated Talk: An Experiment
【时间】2018年11月27日 (周二) 15：30-17：00
【地点】上海财经大学经济学院楼702室
【语言】英文
【摘要】Theory suggests that mediation has the potential to improve information sharing. This paper experimentally investigates whether and how this potential can be realized. It is the first such study in a cheap-talk environment. We find that mediation encourages players to use (more informative) separating strategies. Outcomes, defined as joint distributions over states and actions, gravitate toward pooling with direct talk and toward separation with mediated talk. This difference in behavior translates into a moderate payoff advantage of mediated over direct talk.
