Paper #169
- Title:
- Comparison of information structures
- Author:
- Olivier Gossner
- Date:
- May 1996
- Abstract:
- We introduce two ways of comparing information structures, say ${\cal I}$ and ${\cal J}$. First we say that ${\cal I}$ is richer than ${\cal J}$ when for every compact game $G$, all correlated equilibrium distributions of $G$ induced by ${\cal J}$ are also induced by ${\cal I}$. Second, we say that ${\cal J}$ is faithfully reproducable from ${\cal I}$ when all the players can compute from their information in ${\cal I}$ ``new information'' that they could have received from ${\cal J}$. We prove that ${\cal I}$ is richer than ${\cal J}$ if and only if ${\cal J}$ is faithfully reproducable from ${\cal I}$.
- Keywords:
- Game--theory, information, correlation
- JEL codes:
- C70, C72
- Area of Research:
- Microeconomics
- Published in:
- Games and Economic Behavior, num. 30, pp. 44-63, 2000
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