Evaluating information in zero-sum games with incomplete information on both sides

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Working paper
Author/s: 
Bernard De Meyer, Ehud Lehrer and Dinah Rosenberg
Issue number: 
2009.35
Publisher: 
Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne
Year: 
2009
In a Bayesian game some players might receive a noisy signal regarding the specific game actually being played before it starts. We study zero-sum games where each player receives a partial information about his own type and no information about that of the other player, and analyze the impact the signals have on the payoffs. It turns out that the functions that evaluate the value of information share two property. The first is Blackwell monotonicity, which means that each player gains from knowing more. The second is concavity on the space of conditional probabilities.
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