"We model a two-candidate electoral competition in which there is uncertainty about a policy-relevant state of the world. The candidates receive private signals about the true state, which are imperfectly correlated. We study whether the candidates are able to credibly communicate their information to voters through their choice of policy platforms. Our results show that the fact that private information is dispersed between the candidates creates a strong incentive for them to bias their messages toward the electorate's prior. Information transmission becomes more difficult, the more the information is dispersed between the candidates and the stronger is the electorate's prior. Indeed, as more prior information becomes available, welfare c...
We provide a game-theoretical model of manipulative election campaigns with two political candidates...
Many interesting political institutions, such as campaigning, polls, and sequences of elections cann...
This paper analyzes an electoral game where candidates have private information on their own types. ...
'We model a two-candidate electoral competition in which there is uncertainty about a policy-relevan...
We model a two-candidate electoral competition in which there is uncertainty about a policy-relevant...
We analyze a, model of two candidate competition in which candidate and voter preferences are privat...
We study a Downsian model of elections in which two candidates who are primarily office-motivated ha...
We study a model in which two parties compete by announcing their policies, after receiving conditio...
We study a model of electoral competition where politicians are better informed than the electorate ...
Many empirical investigations indicate that information is scarce and therefore costly to holders an...
In this paper we contribute to the study of how democracy works when politicians are better informed...
We study elections between two candidates who hold some private information valuable for the whole e...
Can campaign communications credibly transmit information about candidates ’ pol-icy intentions? To ...
This paper proposes an analysis of strategic communication on platforms by candidates during an elec...
This paper examines competition in a spatial model of two-candidate elections, where one candidate e...
We provide a game-theoretical model of manipulative election campaigns with two political candidates...
Many interesting political institutions, such as campaigning, polls, and sequences of elections cann...
This paper analyzes an electoral game where candidates have private information on their own types. ...
'We model a two-candidate electoral competition in which there is uncertainty about a policy-relevan...
We model a two-candidate electoral competition in which there is uncertainty about a policy-relevant...
We analyze a, model of two candidate competition in which candidate and voter preferences are privat...
We study a Downsian model of elections in which two candidates who are primarily office-motivated ha...
We study a model in which two parties compete by announcing their policies, after receiving conditio...
We study a model of electoral competition where politicians are better informed than the electorate ...
Many empirical investigations indicate that information is scarce and therefore costly to holders an...
In this paper we contribute to the study of how democracy works when politicians are better informed...
We study elections between two candidates who hold some private information valuable for the whole e...
Can campaign communications credibly transmit information about candidates ’ pol-icy intentions? To ...
This paper proposes an analysis of strategic communication on platforms by candidates during an elec...
This paper examines competition in a spatial model of two-candidate elections, where one candidate e...
We provide a game-theoretical model of manipulative election campaigns with two political candidates...
Many interesting political institutions, such as campaigning, polls, and sequences of elections cann...
This paper analyzes an electoral game where candidates have private information on their own types. ...