Persuasion via weak institutions

E Lipnowski, D Ravid… - Journal of Political …, 2022 - journals.uchicago.edu
A sender commissions a study to persuade a receiver but influences the report with some
probability. We show that increasing this probability can benefit the receiver and can lead to …

Mechanism design with limited commitment

L Doval, V Skreta - Econometrica, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We develop a tool akin to the revelation principle for dynamic mechanism‐selection games
in which the designer can only commit to short‐term mechanisms. We identify a canonical …

Persuasion for the long run

J Best, D Quigley - Journal of Political Economy, 2024 - journals.uchicago.edu
We examine persuasion when the sole source of credibility today is a desire to maintain a
public record for accuracy. A long-run sender plays a cheap talk game with a sequence of …

Bayesian explanations for persuasion

AT Little - Journal of Theoretical Politics, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The central puzzle of persuasion is why a receiver would listen to a sender who they know is
trying to change their beliefs or behavior. This article summarizes five approaches to solving …

The value of mediated communication

A Salamanca - Journal of Economic Theory, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper characterizes optimal mediation in sender-receiver games. We assume that the
mediator's objective is to maximize the ex-ante welfare of the sender. Mediated equilibria …

Games with incomplete information: from repetition to cheap talk and persuasion

F Forges - Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2020 - JSTOR
This essay aims at showing that repeated games with incomplete information, which were
conceived by Aumann and Maschler in the years 1960s, provide basic tools to study …

Constrained information design

L Doval, V Skreta - Mathematics of Operations Research, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
We provide tools to analyze information design problems subject to constraints. We do so by
extending an insight by Le Treust and Tomala to the case of multiple inequality and equality …

[PDF][PDF] Communication with strategic fact-checking

A Levkun - 2022 - alevkun.github.io
We examine communication between an informed sender and an uninformed receiver with
a presence of a strategic fact-checker. The sender makes a claim about an issue to …

Persuasion and Welfare

L Doval, A Smolin - Journal of Political Economy, 2024 - journals.uchicago.edu
Information policies such as scores, ratings, and recommendations are increasingly shaping
society's choices in high-stakes domains. We provide a framework to study the welfare …

Mediated cheap talk design

I Arieli, I Geffner, M Tennenholtz - … of the AAAI Conference on Artificial …, 2023 - ojs.aaai.org
We study an information design problem with two informed senders and a receiver in which,
in contrast to traditional Bayesian persuasion settings, senders do not have commitment …