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Agreeing to disagree in a countable space of equiprobable states

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  • João Correia-da-Silva

    (CEMPRE and Faculdade de Economia da Universidade do Porto, Portugal)

Abstract

An example is given in which agents agree to disagree, showing that Aumann's (1976) Agreement Theorem does not extend to a countable space of equiprobable states of nature. Even in this unorthodox setting, if the sets of the information partitions are intervals, an agreement theorem holds. A result that describes the margin for disagreement is also obtained.

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  • João Correia-da-Silva, 2008. "Agreeing to disagree in a countable space of equiprobable states," FEP Working Papers 260, Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Economia do Porto.
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    Keywords

    Agreeing to disagree; Interactive epistemology; Bounded rationality.;
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    JEL classification:

    • D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
    • D84 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Expectations; Speculations

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