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: 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
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