The survey is concerned with the issue of information transmission from experts to non-experts. Two main approaches to … the use of experts can be traced. According to the game-theoretic approach expertise is a case of asymmetric information … the expert’s performance. According to the Bayesian decision-theoretic approach the expert is the agent who announces his …

experts’ estimates of the costs of future energy technologies. We harmonize data from 19 elicitations, involving 215 experts … that, on average, when experts respond to elicitations in person, they ascribe lower confidence (larger uncertainty) to …-and geography-US or EU-are also significant; academics and US experts have lower confidence than other types of experts. Higher R …