Events at CERGE-EI
Friday, 1 December, 2023 | 14:00 | Room 6 | Micro Theory Research Seminar
Aditya V. Kuvalekar (University of Essex) "#Change"
University of Essex, United Kingdom
Authors: Aditya Kuvalekar, Deepal Basak, Joyee Deb
Abstract: Change may be socially beneficial, but causing change requires enough people to take a costly action—a classic collective action problem. More similar information about the benefits of regime change may help people coordinate and mobilize toward a shared goal, but it can also exacerbate free-riding. We propose a notion of information similarity to characterize when more similar information hinders or facilitates regime change. We show that more similar information helps overthrow stronger regimes but enables weaker regimes to survive. We apply our framework to collective action settings such as protests and voting in committees.
JEL Classification: D82, D83
Keywords: collective action, information similarity, regime change
Full Text: #Change
