Nonmanipulable Bayesian testing

نویسنده

  • Colin Stewart
چکیده

This paper considers the problem of testing an expert who makes probabilistic forecasts about the outcomes of a stochastic process. I show that, as long as uninformed experts do not learn the correct forecasts too quickly, a likelihood test can distinguish informed from uninformed experts with high prior probability. The test rejects informed experts on some data-generating processes; however, the set of such processes is topologically small. These results contrast sharply with many negative results in the literature.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • J. Economic Theory

دوره 146  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2011