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November 2003 - Volume 71 Issue 6 Page 1619 - 1660


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Long Cheap Talk

Robert J. Aumann
Sergiu Hart

Abstract

With cheap talk, more can be achieved by long conversations than by a single message—even when one side is strictly better informed than the other. (“Cheap talk” means plain conversation—unmediated, nonbinding, and payoff-irrelevant.) This work characterizes the equilibrium payoffs for all two-person games in which one side is better informed than the other and cheap talk is permitted.

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