Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/189266 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
1998
Series/Report no.: 
Queen's Economics Department Working Paper No. 974
Publisher: 
Queen's University, Department of Economics, Kingston (Ontario)
Abstract: 
When individual statistics are aggregated through a strictly monotone function to an aggregate statistic, common knowledge of the value of the aggregate statistic does not imply, in general, constancy of the individual statistics. This paper discusses two circumstances where it does occur. The first case arises when partitions are independently drawn: in this case common knowledge of the value of the aggregator function implies (with probability one) constancy of the individual statistics. The second case is where private statistics are related: affiliation of individual statistics and a lattice condition imply constancy of the individual statistics when the value of the aggregate statistic is common knowledge.
Subjects: 
Common Knowledge
Aggregate Statistics
Random Information
Affiliated Information
JEL: 
D80
D82
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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