Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/59658 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Paper No. 1484
Publisher: 
Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management, Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science, Evanston, IL
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

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