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Signaling models do suffer from the 'just so story' problem, which is one reason that they are not all that popular in mainstream economics anymore. I am not sure how much sense it makes to rely heavily on them in more speculative areas, like human social behavior.

I was inspired by this post to write my own thoughts here about the decline of signaling models in finance and accounting...Ron Dye of Northwestern wrote a comment that alone is worth clicking on the link.

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Do any of those hundreds of papers have experimental data to back up their claims?

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