Information design through scarcity and social learning

Persuasion without Priors

“…Bayesian persuasion literature was pioneered by Kamenica and Gentzkow (2011) and since then has experienced explosive growth, see Bergemann and Morris (2019) and Kamenica (2019) for extensive surveys of existing literature. Our paper is closely related to the literature with multiple receiver types (see Kolotilin et al (2017), Laclau and Renou (2017), Guo and Shmaya (2019a), Parakhonyak and Vikander (2019), Best and Quigley (2020)). In our setting, unlike the aforementioned papers, the distribution of the receiver types is unknown to the sender.…”