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| Title: | | Communication, timing, and common learning  |
| Authors: | | Steiner, Jakub Stewart, Colin |
| Issue Date: | | 2010 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Discussion Paper, Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science 1484 |
| Abstract: | | We study the effect of stochastically delayed communication on common knowledge acquisition (common learning). If messages do not report dispatch times, communication prevents common learning under general conditions even if common knowledge is acquired without communication. If messages report dispatch times, communication can destroy common learning under more restrictive conditions. The failure of common learning in the two cases is based on different infection arguments. Communication can destroy common learning even if it ends in finite time, or if agents communicate all of their information. We also identify conditions under which common learning is preserved in the presence of communication. |
| Subjects: | | communication common learning approximate common knowledge |
| JEL: | | C72 D83 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Discussion Papers, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
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