说服与动态沟通

Persuasion and dynamic communication

Theoretical Economics · 2014
被引 15
人大 AABS 4

中文导读

通过线性规划比较静态与动态说服规则,发现远见条件下最优说服问题可简化为最大流问题,此时动态与静态规则一致且无需随机化。

Abstract

A speaker attempts to persuade a listener to accept a request by presenting evidence. A persuasion rule specifies what evidence is persuasive. This paper compares static and dynamic rules. We present a single linear program (i) whose solution corresponds to the listener's optimal dynamic rule and (ii) whose solution with additional integer constraints corresponds to the optimal static rule. We present a condition--foresight--under which the optimal persuasion problem reduces to the classical maximum flow problem. This has various qualitative consequences, including the coincidence of optimal dynamic and static persuasion rules, elimination of the need for randomization, and symmetry of optimal static rules.

动态沟通静态规则说服规则最大流问题