conflict, heavily rely on mechanisms of group identification and often use somewhat arbitrary divisions of a society into … the experience of violence throughout the conflict episode. By examining the protracted war in Sri Lanka and applying … these indices (and their combination) to a data set describing victims of the civil conflict by district and year, we are …

We study a general model of common-value second-price auctions with differential information. We show that one of the …. Furthermore when bidder has information advantage other bidders cannot make profit. …

use of industry-commissioned consultants, experts and lobbyists that produce information for regulatory and policy use. A … firm and regulator, linked to the role of the regulator as information-processing intermediate for the political principal …. The firm puts processed but biased information at the free disposal of the regulator, 'no strings attached', who can then …

We examine the incentives of an interest group to provide a political decision-maker with policy-relevant information … results say that the relationship between the pressure exerted and the amount of information transmitted is not monotonic, and … that an increase in the amount of information that the lobby transmits may be socially harmful. This analysis has immediate …

In an example, monetary policy can determine the information revealed by prices, and thus it can be effective, even …