Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
5071867 Games and Economic Behavior 2014 23 Pages PDF
Abstract

•Multidimensional cheap talk with multiple senders who send messages sequentially.•Define the extended self-serving belief.•There exists a fully revealing equilibrium iff the experts have opposing biases.

This paper studies a two-dimensional cheap talk game with two senders and one receiver. The senders possess the same information and sequentially send messages about that information. In one-dimensional sequential message cheap talk games where the state space is unbounded, the information is fully transmitted under the self-serving belief, as suggested by Krishna and Morgan (2001b). However, this result depends crucially on the structure of the one-dimensional model. It generally does not hold in two-dimensional models. We consider the extended self-serving belief, which implies full information transmission even if the self-serving belief cannot work. Then, we show that the necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of the fully revealing equilibrium is that the senders have opposing-biased preferences.

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