Benndorf, Volker; Kübler, Dorothea; Normann, Hans-Theo - Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), … - 2014
We study the voluntary revelation of private information in a labor-market experiment where workers can reveal their productivity at a cost. While rational revelation improves a worker's payoff, it imposes a negative externality on others and may trigger further revelation. Such unraveling can...