Knowing What Others Know: Common Knowledge, Accounting, and Capital Markets

Shyam Sunder

Yale School of Management Working Papers from Yale School of Management

Abstract: The concept of common knowledge concerning higher orders of knowledge has seen exciting new developments in the fields of philosophy, game theory, statistics, economics and cognitive science in the recent decades. Even though information lies at the heart of accounting and capital markets research, these new developments have had only a faint echo in these fields. Common knowledge thinking may significantly advance our understanding of financial reporting, analysis, securities valuation, managerial control, auditing and information systems. Such accounting and business applications will also make important contributions in the form of concrete real life examples and applications to the basic fields where the idea of common knowledge originated. This paper is an overview of common knowledge and its actual and potential applications to accounting and capital markets research.

Keywords: Common Knowledge; Accounting; Capital Markets; Beliefs About Others' Beliefs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D84 G14 M41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001-08-08
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