On 28th November OxTalks will move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events' (full details are available on the Staff Gateway).
There will be an OxTalks freeze beginning on Friday 14th November. This means you will need to publish any of your known events to OxTalks by then as there will be no facility to publish or edit events in that fortnight. During the freeze, all events will be migrated to the new Oxford Events site. It will still be possible to view events on OxTalks during this time.
If you have any questions, please contact halo@digital.ox.ac.uk
We study the role of risk in strategic information transmission. Revisiting the choice between delegation and communication, we find that a uniform scaling of variance has no effect on the optimal choice of authority, and thus in no adequate measure of risk. We, then, consider the effect of the shape of the distribution, in particular, the weight in the tails. We find that a high risk of extreme events diminishes the quality of information sharing. As a result, delegation of authority becomes relatively more attractive compared to communication in environments with more weight in the tails.
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