个体决策与群体决策之间的关系

On the relationship between individual and group decisions

Theoretical Economics · 2014
被引 23
人大 AABS 4

中文导读

研究在个体拥有相同偏好并基于私人信号做推荐时,群体能否通过完全汇总信息做出最优决策,发现无信息结构限制下几乎所有行动组合都可理性化。

Abstract

Each member of a group receives a signal about the unknown state of the world and decides upon a utility-maximizing recommendation on the basis of that signal. The individuals have identical preferences. The group makes a decision that maximizes the common utility function assuming perfect pooling of the information in individual signals. An action profile is a group action and a recommendation from each individual. A collection of action profiles is rational if there exists an information structure under which all elements in the collection arise with positive probability. With no restrictions on the information structure, essentially all action profiles are rational. In fact, given any distribution over action profiles it is possible to find an information structure that approximates the distribution. In a monotone environment in which individuals receive conditionally independent signals, essentially any single action profile is rational, although some collections of action profiles are not.

个体决策群体决策信息结构理性行动