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Home | Events Archive | Credible Threats
Seminar

Credible Threats

  • Series
    CREED Seminars
  • Speaker(s)
    Martin Dufwenberg (Purdue University, United States)
  • Field
    Behavioral Economics
  • Location
    University of Amsterdam, Campus Roeterseiland, E0.22
    Amsterdam
  • Date and time

    May 07, 2026
    13:00 - 14:00

Abstract

We study the effect of communication on deterrence and costly punishment. We show that a dynamic theoretical model of belief-dependent anger captures how updated expectations make threats credible. We test our model in a between-subjects experiment with belief elicitation where one-sided communication is available as a treatment. Joint work with Flora Li and Alec Smith.