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Persuading an Informed Committee

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  • Nina Bobkova
  • Saskia Klein

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A biased sender seeks to persuade a committee to vote for a proposal by providing public information about its quality. Each voter has some private information about the proposal's quality. We characterize the sender-optimal disclosure policy under unanimity rule when the sender can versus cannot ask voters for a report about their private information. The sender can only profit from asking agents about their private signals when the private information is sufficiently accurate. For all smaller accuracy levels, a sender who cannot elicit the private information is equally well off.

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  • Nina Bobkova & Saskia Klein, 2020. "Persuading an Informed Committee," CRC TR 224 Discussion Paper Series crctr224_2020_230, University of Bonn and University of Mannheim, Germany.
    • Handle: RePEc:bon:boncrc:crctr224_2020_230
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    Voting; Bayesian Persuasion; Strategic Voting; Unanimity;
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