The Econometric SocietyEdited by: Guido W. Imbens • Print ISSN: 0012-9682 • Online ISSN: 1468-0262
August 15, 2022
Econometrica: May, 2008, Volume 76, Issue 3
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0262.2008.00846.x
p. 541-559
Nabil I. Al‐Najjar, Jonathan Weinstein
We show that a simple “reputation‐style” test can always identify which of two experts is informed about the true distribution. The test presumes no prior knowledge of the true distribution, achieves any desired degree of precision in some fixed finite time, and does not use “counterfactual” predictions. Our analysis capitalizes on a result of Fudenberg and Levine (1992) on the rate of convergence of supermartingales.
