The Welfare Cost of Signaling

Might the resource costliness of making signals credible be low or negligible? Using a job market as an example, we build a signaling model to determine the extent to which a transfer from an applicant might replace a resource cost as an equilibrium method of achieving signal credibility. Should a fi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Fan Yang, Ronald M. Harstad
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2017-02-01
Series:Games
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4336/8/1/11