This paper focuses on issues of allocating authority between an uninformed principal and an informed expert. We analyze the benefits of informational control--restricting the precision of the expert's information (without learning its content). In this case, the result of Dessein (2002) [8] that...

This paper investigates communication between an informed expert and an uninformed principal via a strategic mediator. We demonstrate that, for any bias in the parties' preferences, there exists a strategic mediator that provides the highest expected payoff to the principal, as if the players...