Coarse Information Design

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Hauptverfasser: Lyu, Qianjun, Suen, Wing, Zhang, Yimeng
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author Lyu, Qianjun
Suen, Wing
Zhang, Yimeng
author_facet Lyu, Qianjun
Suen, Wing
Zhang, Yimeng
contents We study an information design problem with continuous state and discrete signal space. Under convex and S-shaped value functions, the optimal information structure is interval-partitional and exhibits a dual expectations property: each induced signal is the conditional mean (taken under the prior density) of each interval; and each interval cutoff is the barycenter (taken under the value function curvature) of the interval formed by neighboring signals. This property enables an examination into which part of the state space is more finely partitioned. The analysis can be extended to general value functions and adapted to study coarse mechanism design.
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Lyu, Qianjun
Suen, Wing
Zhang, Yimeng
Theoretical Economics
We study an information design problem with continuous state and discrete signal space. Under convex and S-shaped value functions, the optimal information structure is interval-partitional and exhibits a dual expectations property: each induced signal is the conditional mean (taken under the prior density) of each interval; and each interval cutoff is the barycenter (taken under the value function curvature) of the interval formed by neighboring signals. This property enables an examination into which part of the state space is more finely partitioned. The analysis can be extended to general value functions and adapted to study coarse mechanism design.
title Coarse Information Design
topic Theoretical Economics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.18020