[economics] In economics, more precisely in contract theory, signalling (or signaling: see American and British English differences) is the idea that one party (termed the agent) credibly conveys some information about itself to another party (the principal). For example, in Michael Spence`s job-market signalling model, (potential) employee...
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the transmission of information specifically concerned with the establishment and control of connections, between entities of a telecommunication networkthe exchange of information specifically concerned with call set-ups and supervision in a telecommunication network and with network management