Competing with Equivocal Information

This paper studies strategic disclosure by multiple senders competing for prizes awarded by a single receiver. They decide whether to disclose a piece of information that is both verifiable and equivocal (it can inuence the receiver both ways). The standard unrav- eling argument breaks down: if the commonly known probability that her information is favorable is high, a single sender never discloses. Competition restores full disclosure only if some of the senders are sufficiently unlikely to have favorable information. When the senders are uncertain about each other's strength, however, all symmetric equilibria approach full disclosure as competition increases.

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Source https://hal.science/hal-00675126
Author Perez-Richet, Eduardo
Maintainer CCSD
Last Updated May 26, 2026, 10:37 (UTC)
Created May 26, 2026, 10:37 (UTC)
Identifier hal-00675126
Language en
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contributor Département d'Économie de l'École Polytechnique (X-DEP-ECO) ; École polytechnique (X) ; Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris)-Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris)
creator Perez-Richet, Eduardo
date 2012-02-29T00:00:00
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