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Signaling Under Double‐Crossing Preferences

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  • Chia‐Hui Chen
  • Junichiro Ishida
  • Wing Suen

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This paper provides a general analysis of signaling under double‐crossing preferences with a continuum of types. There are natural economic environments where the indifference curves of two types cross twice, such that the celebrated single‐crossing property fails to hold. Equilibrium exhibits a threshold type below which types choose actions that are fully revealing and above which they pool in a pairwise fashion, with a gap separating the actions chosen by these two sets of types. The resulting signaling action is quasi‐concave in type. We also provide an algorithm to establish equilibrium existence by construction.

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  • Chia‐Hui Chen & Junichiro Ishida & Wing Suen, 2022. "Signaling Under Double‐Crossing Preferences," Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 90(3), pages 1225-1260, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:emetrp:v:90:y:2022:i:3:p:1225-1260
    DOI: 10.3982/ECTA19210
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