Information Design In Coalition Formation Games

Sareh Vosooghi

No 2017.28, Working Papers from Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei

Abstract: I examine a setting, where an information sender conducts research into a payoff-relevant state variable, and releases information to agents, who consider joining a coalition. The agents' actions can cause harm by contributing to a public bad. The sender, who has commitment power, by designing an information mechanism (a set of signals and a probability distribution over them), maximises his payoff, which depends on the action taken by the agents, and the state variable. I show that the coalition size, as a function of beliefs of agents, is an endogenous variable, induced by the information sender. The optimal information mechanism from the general set of public information mechanisms, in coalition formation games is derived. I also apply the results to International Environmental Agreements (IEAs), where a central authority, as an information sender, attempts to reduce the global level of greenhouse gases (GHG) by communication of information on social cost of GHG.

Keywords: Coalition Formation; Learning; Information Persuasion; International Environmental Agreements (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C72 D70 D83 Q54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-06
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cdm, nep-des, nep-env, nep-exp, nep-gth and nep-mic
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