2 papers
econ.TH2025
Frequentist Persuasion
Arnav Sood, James Best
A sender persuades a strategically naive decisionmaker (DM) by committing privately to an experiment. Sender's choice of experiment is unknown to the DM, who must form her posterio…
econ.TH2025
Divide and Confer: Aggregating Information without Verification
James Best, Daniel Quigley, Maryam Saeedi +1
We examine receiver-optimal mechanisms for aggregating information divided across many biased senders. Each sender privately observes an unconditionally independent signal about an…