òòò½Íø Review
ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)
Costly Persuasion
òòò½Íø Review
vol. 104,
no. 5, May 2014
(pp. 457–62)
Abstract
We study the design of informational environments in settings where generating information is costly. We assume that the cost of a signal is proportional to the expected reduction in uncertainty. We show that Kamenica & Gentzkow's (2011) concavification approach to characterizing optimal signals extends to these settings.Citation
Gentzkow, Matthew, and Emir Kamenica. 2014. "Costly Persuasion." òòò½Íø Review 104 (5): 457–62. DOI: 10.1257/aer.104.5.457Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- D82 Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
- D83 Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief