Sher, Itai - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 9 (2014) 1, pp. 99-136
A speaker attempts to persuade a listener to accept a request by presenting evidence. A persuasion rule specifies what evidence is persuasive. This paper compares static and dynamic rules. We present a single linear program (i) whose solution corresponds to the listener's optimal dynamic rule...