We study the intergenerational accumulation of knowledge in an infinite-horizon model of communication. Each in a … equilibria do not exist. This is so both in the case of private communication in which each player only hears the message of his … immediate predecessor, and in the case of public communication, in which each player hears the message of all previous players …

and how unmediated communication and mediation reduce the ex ante probability of conflict, in a simple game where conflict … is due to asymmetric information. Unmediated communication helps reducing the chance of conflict as it allows conflicting … communication when the intensity of conflict is high, or when asymmetric information is large. The mediator improves upon unmediated …