Cover of: Multidimensional Cheap Talk and Delegation
Jaehoon Kim, Lawrence S. Rothenberg

Multidimensional Cheap Talk and Delegation

Section: Articles
Volume 171 (2015) / Issue 2, pp. 263-284 (22)
Published 09.07.2018
DOI 10.1628/093245615X14273596658883
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Summary
lignment with the legislator on the dimension of its expertise, and on the conflict of lobby interests. Full revelation is possible only when each lobby's preference on its expertise is completely aligned with the legislator's. Otherwise, greater preference alignment and lowered lobbyist conflict induce more transmission. We also show that results are sensitive to the legislator's expertise. In turn, we demonstrate how informational impacts provide predictions about when legislators will delegate to an expert, and we note our analyses' broader empirical implications.