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Positive value of information in games

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We exhibit a general class of interactive decision situations in which all the agents benefit from more information. This class includes as a special case the classical comparison of statistical experiments à la Blackwell.

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  1. Dipartimento di Matematica, Università “La Sapienza”, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5 , I-00185, Roma, Italy

    Bruno Bassan

  2. THEMA, UMR CNRS 7536, Université Paris 10 – Nanterre 200 avenue de la République, CORE Université Catholique de Louvain, 92001, Nanterre CEDEX, France

    Olivier Gossner

  3. Dipartimento di Statistica e Matematica Applicata, Università di Torino, Piazza Arbarello 8, I–10122, Torino, Italy

    Marco Scarsini

  4. CNRS–France EUREQua : Paris 1 and LEI–CREST and Center for Study of Rationality, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

    Shmuel Zamir

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AMS 2000 Subject Classification:Primary 91A35.

The work of Bruno Bassan and Marco Scarsini was partially supported by MIUR-COFIN. The authors express their thanks to Sylvain Sorin for enlightening comments.

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Bassan, B., Gossner, O., Scarsini, M. et al. Positive value of information in games. Int J Game Theory 32, 17–31 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s001820300142

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