Lecture 24: Cheap Talk @mitocw
Lecture 24: Cheap Talk  @mitocw
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MIT 14.12 Economic Applications of Game Theory, Fall 2025
Instructor: Ian Ball
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In this lecture, Ian Ball discusses cheap talk, which is a communication framework between players where messages do not directly affect the payoffs of the game. Providing and receiving information is free.

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