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Long Cheap Talk

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  • Robert J. Aumann
  • Sergiu Hart

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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.

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  • Robert J. Aumann & Sergiu Hart, 2002. "Long Cheap Talk," Discussion Paper Series dp284, The Federmann Center for the Study of Rationality, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, revised Nov 2002.
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    cheap talk; communication; long conversation; incomplete information; game theory; signalling; joint lottery; dimartingale; di-span;
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