TY - JOUR
T1 - What restrictions do Bayesian games impose on the value of information?
AU - Lehrer, Ehud
AU - Rosenberg, Dinah
N1 - Funding Information:
We are grateful to the associate editor and the two referees of the J ournal of Mathematical Economics. The first author acknowledges the support of the Israel Science Foundation, grant no. 762/04.
PY - 2006/6
Y1 - 2006/6
N2 - In a Bayesian game players play an unknown game. Before the game starts some players may receive a signal regarding the specific game actually played. Typically, information structures that determine different signals, induce different equilibrium payoffs. In two-person zero-sum games the equilibrium payoff measures the value of the particular information structure which induces it. We pose a question as to what restrictions Bayesian games impose on the value of information. We provide answers for two kinds of information structures: symmetric, where both players are equally informed, and one-sided, where only one player is informed.
AB - In a Bayesian game players play an unknown game. Before the game starts some players may receive a signal regarding the specific game actually played. Typically, information structures that determine different signals, induce different equilibrium payoffs. In two-person zero-sum games the equilibrium payoff measures the value of the particular information structure which induces it. We pose a question as to what restrictions Bayesian games impose on the value of information. We provide answers for two kinds of information structures: symmetric, where both players are equally informed, and one-sided, where only one player is informed.
KW - Bayesian games
KW - Information structure
KW - One-sided information
KW - Symmetric information
KW - Value-of-information function
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jmateco.2005.09.002
DO - 10.1016/j.jmateco.2005.09.002
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AN - SCOPUS:33645897373
SN - 0304-4068
VL - 42
SP - 343
EP - 357
JO - Journal of Mathematical Economics
JF - Journal of Mathematical Economics
IS - 3
ER -