ON MONOTONE PERSUASION

Anton Kolotilin, Hongyi Li () and Andriy Zapechelnyuk
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Hongyi Li: School of Economics, UNSW Business School

No 2024-05, Discussion Papers from School of Economics, The University of New South Wales

Abstract: We study monotone persuasion in the linear case, where a posterior distribution over states is summarized by its mean. We identify two settings where the optimal unrestricted signal can be nonmonotone. In the first setting, the optimal unrestricted signal requires randomization. In the second setting, the optimal unrestricted signal entails nonmonotone pooling of states. We solve for the optimal monotone signal in each setting, and illustrate our results with an application to media censorship.

Keywords: Bayesian persuasion; monotone persuasion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 17 pages
Date: 2024-07
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Working Paper: On Monotone Persuasion (2024)
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