This paper focuses on issues of allocating authority between an uninformed principal and an informed expert. We analyze the benefits of informational control--restricting the precision of the expert's information (without learning its content). In this case, the result of Dessein (2002) [8] that...

This paper investigates communication between an informed expert and an uninformed principal via a strategic mediator. We demonstrate that, for any bias in the parties' preferences, there exists a strategic mediator that provides the highest expected payoff to the principal, as if the players...

The definition of a niche or a mass market is based on the ranking of two variables: the monopoly price and the product mean value. We characterize properties of the demand function that determine this ranking without calculation of the variables.

This paper analyzes a market with multiple sellers and horizontally differentiated products. We investigate the sellers’ incentives to reveal product relevant information that affects the buyer’s private valuation. The main finding is that if the number of sellers is sufficiently large,...