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Information Transmission in Signaling Games: Confrontation of Different Forward Induction Criteria

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Models and Experiments in Risk and Rationality

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This paper deals with information transmission in a special class of signaling games often used in economic applications.

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Umbhauer, G. (1994). Information Transmission in Signaling Games: Confrontation of Different Forward Induction Criteria. In: Munier, B., Machina, M.J. (eds) Models and Experiments in Risk and Rationality. Theory and Decision Library, vol 29. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2298-8_20

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