Communication Can Destroy Common Learning

Jakub Steiner () and Colin Stewart ()

ESE Discussion Papers from Edinburgh School of Economics, University of Edinburgh

Abstract: We show by example that communication can cause common knowledge acquisition to fail. In the absence of communication, agents acquire approximate common knowledge of some parameter, but with communication they do not.

Date: 2008-09-06
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