Interactions between players with private information and opposed interests are often prone to bad advice and …

This paper studies how information control affects incentives for collusion and optimal organizational structures in … productive agent's private information and the supervisor and agent may collude. I show that the principal optimally delegates …

contracting. I characterize the buyer-optimal ex-ante information in such environments. Employing a classical sequential screening … framework, I find that buyers prefer to remain partially uninformed, since such an information structure induces the seller to … set low prices. For the optimal information signal, trade is efficient, and the seller only extracts the static monopoly …