Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/197924 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
Bank of Canada Staff Working Paper No. 2019-10
Publisher: 
Bank of Canada, Ottawa
Abstract: 
This paper studies how the outcome of Bayesian persuasion depends on a sender's information. I study a game in which, prior to the sender's information disclosure, the designer can restrict the most informative signal that the sender can generate. In the binary action case, I consider arbitrary preferences of the designer and characterize all equilibrium outcomes. As a corollary, I solve a problem of how to maximize a receiver's payoffs by restricting the sender's information: Whenever the designer can increase the receiver's payoffs by restricting the sender's information, the receiver-optimal way coincides with an equilibrium of the game in which the receiver persuades the sender.
Subjects: 
Economic models
JEL: 
D82
D83
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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