Credible persuasion

X Lin, C Liu - Journal of Political Economy, 2024 - journals.uchicago.edu
We propose a new notion of credibility for Bayesian persuasion problems. A disclosure
policy is credible if the sender cannot profit from tampering with her messages while kee** …

Censorship as optimal persuasion

A Kolotilin, T Mylovanov… - Theoretical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We consider a Bayesian persuasion problem where a sender's utility depends only on the
expected state. We show that upper censorship that pools the states above a cutoff and …

Persuasion for the long run

J Best, D Quigley - Journal of Political Economy, 2024 - journals.uchicago.edu
We examine persuasion when the sole source of credibility today is a desire to maintain a
public record for accuracy. A long-run sender plays a cheap talk game with a sequence of …

Bayesian persuasion with costly messages

A Nguyen, TY Tan - Journal of Economic Theory, 2021 - Elsevier
We study a model of Bayesian persuasion in which the Sender commits to a signal structure,
privately observes the signal realization, and then sends a message to the Receiver at a …

Conveying value via categories

P Onuchic, D Ray - Theoretical Economics, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A sender sells an object of unknown quality to a receiver who pays his expected value for it.
Sender and receiver might hold different priors over quality. The sender commits to a …

Persuasion meets delegation

A Kolotilin, A Zapechelnyuk - arxiv preprint arxiv:1902.02628, 2019 - arxiv.org
A principal can restrict an agent's information (the persuasion problem) or restrict an agent's
discretion (the delegation problem). We show that these problems are generally equivalent …

Relational communication

A Kolotilin, H Li - Theoretical Economics, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We study a communication game between an informed sender and an uninformed receiver
with repeated interactions and voluntary transfers. Transfers motivate the receiver's decision …

Simon says? Equilibrium obedience and the limits of authority

H Rantakari - The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Authority, as the right to instruct others and to expect obedience, is often presented as a key
mechanism for coordination. But when obedience is voluntary, how is authority sustained …

On Monotone Persuasion

A Kolotilin, H Li, A Zepechelnyuk - arxiv preprint arxiv:2412.14400, 2024 - arxiv.org
We study monotone persuasion in the linear case, where posterior distributions over states
are summarized by their mean. We solve the two leading cases where optimal unrestricted …

Which Side are You On? Interest Groups and Relational Contracts

Á Delgado-Vega - … Groups and Relational Contracts (December 11 …, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper studies dynamic agreements between a lobby and two political parties. Parties
repeatedly compete for office. The lobby decides which party to support before each …