What restrictions do Bayesian games impose on the value of information?

Journal of Mathematical Economics

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 343-357

  Lehrer, Ehud ^a   Rosenberg, Dinah ^b,c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

^c ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

Bayesian games; Information structure; One sided information; Symmetric information; Value of information function

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645897373     PISSN: 03044068     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmateco.2005.09.002     Document Type: Article

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