TY - JOUR
T1 - On the logic of "agreeing to disagree" type results
AU - Rubinstein, Ariel
AU - Wolinsky, Asher
N1 - Funding Information:
*We thank Michael Bacharach, John Geanakoplos, Dov Samet, and a referee of this journal for their very useful comments. ** This author thanks the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago for its hospitality during the period in which the research for this paper was conducted. *** This author gratefully acknowledges support from the NSF (Grant SES-8810053).
PY - 1990/6
Y1 - 1990/6
N2 - The analysis of the "agreeing to disagree" type results is unified by considering functions which assign to each set of states of nature the value "True" or "False". We identify properties of such functions, being preserved under union, under disjoint union and under difference. The property of being preserved by disjoint union is used to generalize Aumann's, Milgrom and Stokey's and other results. Another proposition refers to all of these properties and implies Samet's generalization of Aumann's result to non-partitional information structures. The two generalizations are used for proving some additional "agreeing to disagree" type results.
AB - The analysis of the "agreeing to disagree" type results is unified by considering functions which assign to each set of states of nature the value "True" or "False". We identify properties of such functions, being preserved under union, under disjoint union and under difference. The property of being preserved by disjoint union is used to generalize Aumann's, Milgrom and Stokey's and other results. Another proposition refers to all of these properties and implies Samet's generalization of Aumann's result to non-partitional information structures. The two generalizations are used for proving some additional "agreeing to disagree" type results.
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U2 - 10.1016/0022-0531(90)90057-Q
DO - 10.1016/0022-0531(90)90057-Q
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AN - SCOPUS:0000979142
SN - 0022-0531
VL - 51
SP - 184
EP - 193
JO - Journal of Economic Theory
JF - Journal of Economic Theory
IS - 1
ER -