Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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956638 | Journal of Economic Theory | 2014 | 25 Pages |
Abstract
This paper studies communication in a static Cournot duopoly model under the assumption that the firms have unverifiable private information about their costs. We investigate the conditions under which the firms cannot transmit any information through cheap talk, and show that when these conditions are violated, it may be possible to construct informative cheap-talk equilibria. If the firms can communicate through a third party, communication can be informative even when informative cheap talk is impossible. We exhibit a simple mediated mechanism that ensures informative communication and interim Pareto dominates the uninformative equilibrium for the firms.
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Authors
Maria Goltsman, Gregory Pavlov,