We investigate the strategies of a data intermediary selling consumer information to firms for price discrimination … purpose. We analyze how the mechanism through which the data intermediary sells information influences how much consumer … information she will collect and sell to firms, and how it impacts consumer surplus. We consider three selling mechanisms tailored …

Numerous theoretical studies have shown that information aggregation through voting is fragile. We consider a model of … information aggregation with vote-contingent payoffs and generically characterize voting behavior in large committees. We use this … characterization to identify the set of vote-contingent payoffs that lead to a unique outcome that robustly aggregates information …

Empirical evidence shows that the perception of information is strongly concentrated in those environments in which a … information is assessed in terms of its contribution to productivity …

A rational-expectations equilibrium with positive demand for financial information does exist under fully revealing … average portfolio demand information in equilibrium if they can adjust portfolio size. More information diminishes the … endowments strongly differ from the average portfolio are worse off. Under fully revealing price, information market equilibria …

We investigate whether the simple plurality rule aggregates information efficiently in a large election with three …. With two alternatives and strategic voters, the simple plurality rule aggregates information efficiently in elections with …

have better information about the state of the world than voters. Three types of institutions are compared: direct …