American Economic Review
ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)
Bayesian Persuasion in Coordination Games
American Economic Review
vol. 106,
no. 5, May 2016
(pp. 592–96)
Abstract
We analyze a coordination game of regime change where the policy maker, who tries to increase the probability of the survival of the regime, commits ex ante to abandon the regime automatically when its fundamentals are below a certain threshold. This policy acts as an information transmission mechanism: agents, who decide whether to attack the regime or not, update positively about the fundamentals of the regime when they see that it has not been abandoned, and so they are less likely to attack. Using the commitment ability, the policy maker can thus increase the overall survival probability of the regime.Citation
Goldstein, Itay, and Chong Huang. 2016. "Bayesian Persuasion in Coordination Games." American Economic Review, 106 (5): 592–96. DOI: 10.1257/aer.p20161047Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- C70 Game Theory and Bargaining Theory: General
- D83 Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness