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In environments with expected utility, it has long been established that speculative trade cannot occur (Milgrom and Stokey), and that the value of public information is negative in economies with risk-sharing and no aggregate uncertainty (Hirshleifer, Schlee). We show that these results are...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in high fatality rates and widespread lockdowns, that countries aim to ease by deploying contact-tracing mobile apps, which notify individuals who were in close geographical proximity to positive cases. We suggest that a powerful tool to induce social...
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We show that there cannot be common knowledge trade in a truly decentralised environment, such as in a blockchain. A trade is an agreement to buy and sell a security that pays according to some state of nature; it is settled when the security's value is verified by an oracle, an intermediary who...
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We provide a syntactic model of unawareness. By introducing multiple knowledge modalities, one for each sub-language, we specifically model agents whose only mistake in reasoning (other than their unawareness) is to underestimate the knowledge of more aware agents. We show that the model is a...
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We report results from a sender-receiver deception game, which tests whether an individual's decision to deceive is influenced by a concern for relative standing in a reference group. The sender ranks six possible outcomes, each specifying a payoff for him and the receiver. A message is then...
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