Economics of Accounting: Information in Markets examines the fundamentals of a variety of economic analyses of the decision-facilitating and decision-influencing roles of information that are pertinent to the study of the economic impact of accounting. While much of information economic analysis...

I: Introduction -- John E. Butterworth’s Pioneering Contributions to the Accounting and Information Economics Literature -- to the Research Papers in this Volume -- II: Information Evaluation in Multiperson Contexts -- 1. Blackwell Informativeness and Sufficient Statistics with Applications to...