On Bayesian Persuasion with Multiple Senders
13 Pages Posted: 5 Oct 2014 Last revised: 19 Apr 2018
Date Written: April 2018
Abstract
In a multi-sender Bayesian persuasion game, Gentzkow and Kamenica (2016) show that increasing the number of senders cannot decrease the amount of information revealed. They assume: (i) senders reveal information simultaneously, (ii) information can be arbitrarily correlated, and (iii) senders play pure strategies. This note constructs examples that demonstrate that adding senders can result in a loss of information if any of these assumptions is violated.
Keywords: Communication, Bayesian Persuasion, Multiple Senders, Sequential Persuasion
JEL Classification: D82, D83
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Li, Fei and Norman, Peter, On Bayesian Persuasion with Multiple Senders (April 2018). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2505277 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2505277
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