Information Mechanisms for the Spread of Protests

Student: Akhmetbekov Dias

Supervisor: Konstantin Sonin

Faculty: International College of Economics and Finance

Educational Programme: Financial Economics (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2018

Here I propose a theoretical framework where the news released by media outlets is pre- sented as an exogenous public signal which can be drawn from the ”reliable” or ”unreli- able” distribution. Citizens tend to discuss the credibility of the news among themselves and it leads to the following results: (i) improbable news does not make regime more or less attackable as it is perceived by agents as pure noise and (ii) interchange of views on how much news is trustworthy makes the regime more assailable if mild anti- or pro-regime news is circulated.

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