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Too Cool for School? Signalling and Countersignalling

Feltovich, Nick, Harbaugh, Richmond, To, Ted·2002·The RAND Journal of Economics
DOI 10.2307/3087478
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In signaling environments ranging from consumption to education, high quality senders often shun the standard signals that should separate them from lower quality senders. We find that allowing for additional, noisy information on sender quality permits equilibria where medium types signal to separate themselves from low types, but high types then choose to not signal or countersignal. High types not only save costs by relying on the additional information to stochastically separate them from low types, but countersignaling itself is a signal of confidence which separates high types from medium types. Experimental results confirm that subjects can learn to countersignal.

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Authors
Feltovich, N., Harbaugh, R., & To, T.
Venue
The RAND Journal of Economics
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2002
Volume
33
Issue
4
Pages
630
ISSN
0741-6261 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.2307/3087478
OpenAlex
W3122794217
Cited by
269
References
28
FWCI
8.66
Type
journal article
Language
en
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