Artikel

Noisy talk

We investigate strategic information transmission with communication error, or noise. Our main finding is that adding noise can improve welfare. With quadratic preferences and a uniform type distribution, welfare can be raised for almost every bias level by introducing a sufficiently small amount of noise. Furthermore, there exists a level of noise that makes it possible to achieve the best payoff that can be obtained by means of any communication device. As in the model without noise, equilibria are interval partitional; with noise, however, coding (the measure of the message space used by each interval of the equilibrium partition of the type space) becomes critically important.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Journal: Theoretical Economics ; ISSN: 1555-7561 ; Volume: 2 ; Year: 2007 ; Issue: 4 ; Pages: 395-440 ; New York, NY: The Econometric Society

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Noncooperative Games
Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
Thema
Communication
information transmission
cheap talk
noise

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Blume, Andreas
Board, Oliver J.
Kawamura, Kohei
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
The Econometric Society
(wo)
New York, NY
(wann)
2007

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  • Artikel

Beteiligte

  • Blume, Andreas
  • Board, Oliver J.
  • Kawamura, Kohei
  • The Econometric Society

Entstanden

  • 2007

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