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Feasible Joint Posterior Beliefs
Abstract
We study the set of possible joint posterior belief distributions of a group of agents who share a common prior regarding a binary state and who observe some information structure. For two agents, we introduce a quantitative version of Aumann's agreement theorem and show that it is equivalent to a characterization of feasible distributions from a 1995 work by Dawid and colleagues. For any number of agents, we characterize feasible distributions in terms of a "no-trade" condition. We use these characterizations to study information structures with independent posteriors. We also study persuasion problems with multiple receivers, exploring the extreme feasible distributions.
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© 2021 by The University of Chicago. Electronically published July 7, 2021. This paper greatly benefited from multiple suggestions and comments of our colleagues. We are grateful to (in alphabetic order) Kim Border, Ben Brooks, Laura Doval, Piotr Dworczak, Nikita Gladkov, Sergiu Hart, Kevin He, Aviad Heifetz, Yuval Heller, Matthew Jackson, Eliott Lipnowski, Jeffrey Mensch, Benny Moldovanu, Inés Moreno de Barreda, Stephen Morris, Alexander Nesterov, Abraham Neyman, Michael Ostrovsky, Thomas Palfrey, Jim Pitman, Luciano Pomatto, Doron Ravid, Marco Scarsini, Eilon Solan, Theodore Zhu, Gabriel Ziegler, and seminar participants at Bar-Ilan University, Caltech, Hebrew University, the Higher School of Economics St. Petersburg, Technion, Tel Aviv University, Stanford, and the University of California San Diego. Arieli is supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology (2028255). Babichenko is supported by a BSF (United States–Israel Binational Science Foundation) award (2018397). Sandomirskiy is supported by the Lady Davis Foundation, by grant 19-01-00762 of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (740435), and by the Basic Research Program of the National Research University Higher School of Economics. Tamuz is supported by a grant from the Simons Foundation (419427), by a BSF award (2018397), and by a Sloan Fellowship.Attached Files
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- 2028255
- Ministry of Science and Technology (Israel)
- 2018397
- Binational Science Foundation (USA-Israel)
- Lady Davis Foundation
- 19-01-00762
- Russian Foundation for Basic Research
- 740435
- European Research Council (ERC)
- National Research University Higher School of Economics
- 419427
- Simons Foundation
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
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