Communication as Voting (opens in new tab)

This paper analyzes a cheap-talk model with multiple senders and one receiver. Each sender observes a noisy signal about an unknown state and sends a message; the receiver observes the message tally and chooses a policy. This setting shares certain features with voting models (e.g., Feddersen and Pesendorfer, 1997, 1998). The existing literature (e.g., Levit and Malenko, 2011; Battaglini, 2017) focuses on scenarios in which the receiver and ...