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Dynamic Information Revelation in Cheap Talk

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  • Ivanov Maxim

    (Department of Economics, McMaster University, Kenneth Taylor Hall, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON, Canada L8S 4M4)

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This paper studies a multi-stage version of Crawford and Sobel’s communication game. In every period the receiver determines a test about the unknown state whose result is privately observed by the sender. After the sender sends a costless message about an outcome of the test, the receiver selects a test in the next period. After a finite number of periods of interaction, the receiver makes a decision. The paper offers a sequence of tests that refine sender’s information step-by-step and preserve truthtelling in every period. This sequence allows the receiver to learn the state in a subinterval of the state space with an arbitrary precision and has appealing theoretical properties. It consists of simple binary tests which reveal whether the state is above a certain cutoff, where the cutoffs are monotonic across periods and independent from results of the previous tests. Finally, we show that the relative payoff efficiency of multi-stage interaction compared to a single-stage game increases without a bound as the bias in preferences tends to zero.

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  • Ivanov Maxim, 2015. "Dynamic Information Revelation in Cheap Talk," The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, De Gruyter, vol. 15(2), pages 251-275, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:bejtec:v:15:y:2015:i:2:p:251-275:n:6
    DOI: 10.1515/bejte-2014-0017
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    1. Ivanov, Maxim, 2010. "Informational control and organizational design," Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier, vol. 145(2), pages 721-751, March.
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    Keywords

    communication; information; cheap talk;
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    JEL classification:

    • C72 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Noncooperative Games
    • D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
    • D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
    • D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness

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