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To justify the use of Wald’s maxmin preferences in an asymmetric information economy, we introduce a mechanism designer who can convince/persuade agents to adopt Wald’s maxmin preferences. We show that more efficient and individually rational allocations become incentive compatible if the mechanism designer persuades agents to use Wald’s maxmin preferences instead of Bayesian preferences. Thus, we justify the Wald’s maxmin preferences by showing that agents can be persuaded to use them in order to enlarge the set of efficient, individually rational and incentive compatible allocations.