Speaker: Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci
Date and Time: Thursday, April 19th 2018, 16:00-17:30
Venue: ILLC Seminar Room F1.15, Science Park 107.
Title: Mutual Persuasion (joint with Davide Grossi)
Abstract: Two agents have to collectively select one of two options. They are endowed with a personal bias, each in favor of a different option, and they observe a private signal with known quality. They then need to reveal their private signal to the other agent, but may decide to withhold some of the evidence the private signal provides, in order to persuade the other agent in the direction of their own bias. We present a Bayesian model capturing this form of persuasion. The model applies to a variety of phenomena, including political discussions, settlement negotiations and trade.