Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/150085 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Citation: 
[Journal:] Theoretical Economics [ISSN:] 1555-7561 [Volume:] 1 [Issue:] 4 [Publisher:] The Econometric Society [Place:] New York, NY [Year:] 2006 [Pages:] 395-410
Publisher: 
The Econometric Society, New York, NY
Abstract: 
A speaker wishes to persuade a listener to take a certain action. The conditions under which the request is justified, from the listener’s point of view, depend on the state of the world, which is known only to the speaker. Each state is characterized by a set of statements from which the speaker chooses. A persuasion rule specifies which statements the listener finds persuasive. We study persuasion rules that maximize the probability that the listener accepts the request if and only if it is justified, given that the speaker maximizes the probability that his request is accepted. We prove that there always exists a persuasion rule involving no randomization and that all optimal persuasion rules are ex-post optimal. We relate our analysis to the field of pragmatics.
Subjects: 
Persuasion
mechanism design
hard evidence
pragmatics
JEL: 
C61
D82
D83
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Article

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