Coordination-Free Equilibria in Cheap Talk Games

This paper characterizes generic equilibrium play in a multi-sender version of Crawford and Sobel\u27s (1982) cheap talk model, when robustness to a broad class of beliefs about noise in the senders\u27 observation of the state is required. Just like in the one-sender model, information transmission is partial, equilibria have an interval form, and they can be computed through a generalized version of Crawford and Sobels forward solution procedure. Fixing the senders\u27 biases, full revelation is not achievable even as the state space becomes large. Intuitive welfare predictions, such as the desirability of consulting senders with small and opposite biases, follow