Identifying Wisdom (of the Crowd): A Regression Approach

Jonathan Libgober

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Abstract: Experts in a population hold (a) beliefs over a state (call these state beliefs), as well as (b) beliefs over the distribution of beliefs in the population (call these hypothetical beliefs). If these are generated via updating a common prior using a fixed information structure, then the information structure can (generically) be derived by regressing hypothetical beliefs on state beliefs, provided there are at least as many signals as states. In addition, the prior solves an eigenvector equation derived from a matrix determined by the state beliefs and the hypothetical beliefs. Thus, the ex-ante informational environment (i.e., how signals are generated) can be determined using ex-post data (i.e., the beliefs in the population). I discuss implications of this finding, as well as what is identified when there are more states than signals.

Date: 2021-05, Revised 2023-04
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