Pooling or fooling? An experiment on signaling
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Signaling games; Sequential decision-making; Insider information disclosure;All these keywords.
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- C92 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Group Behavior
- D8 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty
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