@article{3dcf451224f048c49802fa80f139e3f3,
title = "Coordination and Learning with a Partial Language",
abstract = "This paper explores how efficiency promotes the use of structure in language. It starts from the premise that one of language's central characteristics is to provide a means for saying novel things about novel circumstances, its creativity. It is reasonable to expect that in a rich and changing environment, language will be incomplete. This encourages reliance on structure. It is shown how creative language use emerges from common knowledge structures, even if those structures are consistent with an a priori absence of a common language. Journal of Economic Literature Classification Numbers: C60, C72.",
keywords = "Common knowledge, Coordination, Language, Optimal learning",
author = "Andreas Blume",
note = "Funding Information: 1This paper was begun while I enjoyed the hospitality of the MEDS Department at Northwestern University. The first version was completed at the CentER for Economic Research at Tilburg University. I am grateful to David Austen-Smith, Eddie Dekel, Oguz Durumeric, Fred Goodman, Ehud Kalai, Bart Lipman, Alejandro Manelli and Roger Myerson for helpful discussions and to Vince Crawford, Hans Haller, Scott Page and Joel Sobel for comments. I have benefitted from comments by seminar participants at the CentER for Economic Research (Tilburg University), CREED (University of Amsterdam), University of Bielefeld, Humboldt University, Iowa State University, University of Saarbrucken, WZB (Social Science Research Center, Berlin), the SAET conference in Antalya, the Midwest Mathecon Conference at Indiana University, and the Summer Meeting at the University of Valencia. Support by a grant from the National Science Foundation (SBR-9808947) is gratefully acknowledged.",
year = "2000",
month = nov,
doi = "10.1006/jeth.2000.2674",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "95",
pages = "1--36",
journal = "Journal of Economic Theory",
issn = "0022-0531",
publisher = "Academic Press Inc.",
number = "1",
}