Communication Protocols with Belief Messages

Posted: 4 Dec 2007

Abstract

This paper presents a communication protocol to reach consensus. In our setting, every player has asymmetric information and evaluates a fixed event on his information. According to the protocol, the sender sends non-partitional messages that he believes the event with a probability of at least his evaluation. We show that the posteriors for the event must be equal among the players after the communication.

Keywords: Communication, Protocol, p-belief, Consensus, Agreeing to disagree

JEL Classification: C62, C78

Suggested Citation

Ishikawa, Ryuichiro, Communication Protocols with Belief Messages. Theory and Decision, Vol. 61, pp. 63-74, 2006, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1044661

Ryuichiro Ishikawa (Contact Author)

Waseda University-SILS ( email )

Shinjuku, Tokyo 1658050
Japan

HOME PAGE: http://www.f.waseda.jp/r.ishikawa/

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