Detailed transaction and price data from 769 Chinese state-owned enterprises reveal that corruption --- official diversion of under-priced in-plan industrial goods to the market --- was pervasive in China between 1980 and 1989. More important, corruption has a significant impact on the...

This paper analyzes how the gossip process can be manipulated by biased people and the impact of such manipulation on information transmission. In this model, a single piece of information is transmitted via a chain of agents with privately known types. Each agent may be either objective or...