Feasible joint posterior beliefs

Itai Arieli, Yakov Babichenko, Fedor Sandomirskiy, Omer Tamuz

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Abstract

We study the set of possible joint posterior belief distributions of a group of agents who share a common prior regarding a binary state and who observe some information structure. For two agents, we introduce a quantitative version of Aumann’s agreement theorem and show that it is equivalent to a characterization of feasible distributions from a 1995 work by Dawid and colleagues. For any number of agents, we characterize feasible distributions in terms of a “no-trade” condition. We use these characterizations to study information structures with independent posteriors. We also study persuasion problems with multiple receivers, exploring the extreme feasible distributions.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2546-2594
Number of pages49
JournalJournal of Political Economy
Volume129
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 2021

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Economics and Econometrics

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