Essays on information and networks

Thesis

This thesis consists of three independent and self-contained chapters regarding information and networks. The abstract of each chapter is given below.

CHAPTER 1: The seminal “agreeing to disagree” result of Aumann (1976) was generalized from a probabilistic setting to general decision functions over partitional information structures by Bacharach (1985). This was done by isolating the relevant properties of conditional probabilities that drive the original result – namely, the “Sure...

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Authors: Tarbush, B

• Publication date: 2013
• DOI: 10.5287/ora-eoxx6pkqa
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: Information; social networks; logic
• Subjects: Microeconomics