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Persuasion in an asymmetric information economy: a justification of Wald’s maxmin preferences
Economic Theory ( IF 1.423 ) Pub Date : 2021-04-28 , DOI: 10.1007/s00199-021-01364-7
Zhiwei Liu , Nicholas C. Yannelis

To justify the use of Wald’s maxmin preferences in an asymmetric information economy, we introduce a mechanism designer who can convince/persuade agents to adopt Wald’s maxmin preferences. We show that more efficient and individually rational allocations become incentive compatible if the mechanism designer persuades agents to use Wald’s maxmin preferences instead of Bayesian preferences. Thus, we justify the Wald’s maxmin preferences by showing that agents can be persuaded to use them in order to enlarge the set of efficient, individually rational and incentive compatible allocations.



中文翻译:

不对称信息经济中的说服力:Wald maxmin偏好的证明

为了证明在不对称信息经济中使用Wald的maxmin偏好是合理的,我们引入了一种机制设计器,可以说服/说服代理采用Wald的maxmin偏好。我们表明,如果机制设计者说服代理人使用Wald的maxmin偏好而不是Bayes偏好,则更有效,更合理的分配变得与激励兼容。因此,我们通过证明可以说服代理人使用沃尔德的maxmin偏好来证明他们的合理性,从而扩大有效,个体理性和激励兼容的分配范围。

更新日期:2021-04-29
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