This paper characterizes the class of communication networks for which, in any environment (utilities and beliefs … common and independent beliefs and private values or a bad outcome, we show that if the communication network is 2-connected … directly connected to the designer or indirectly connected to the designer through at least two disjoint paths. We couple …

This paper studies a mechanism design model where the players and the designer are nodes in a communication network. We … characterize the communication networks (directed graphs) for which, in any environment (utilities and beliefs), every incentive … on a given communication network, in all environments with either common independent beliefs and private values or a …

other hand the decision makers rely too much on the received information. Moreover, communication as well as payoffs … communication is less biased. In all treatments, however, the messages are more precise than theoretically predicted. …