Persuasion with endogenous misspecified beliefs
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We study a two-action, two-state pure persuasion game in which the receiver has non-rational expectations. The sender can add ambiguity to his message by pooling it with other messages. This be likened selective redaction of original message. knows sender’s strategy but not strategy, and uses only former draw inferences from redacted characterize highest probability attainable under these conditions.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: European Economic Review
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1873-572X', '0014-2921']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2021.103712