I consider multi-round cheap talk communication environments in which, after a lie, the informed party has no memory of the content of the lie. I characterize the equilibria with forgetful liars in such settings assuming that a liar's expectation about his past lie coincides with the equilibrium...

A necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a common prior for several players is given in terms of the players' present beliefs only. A common prior exists, if for each random variable it is common knowledge that all its iterated expectations converge to the same value; this value...

In our laboratory experiment, subjects, in sequence, have to predict the value of a good. The second subject in the sequence makes his prediction twice: first ("first belief"), after he observes his predecessor's prediction; second ("posterior belief"), after he observes his private signal. We...