Every year during school and college admissions, students and their parents devote considerable time and effort to acquiring costly information about their own preferences. In a market where students are ranked by universities based on exam scores, we explore ways to reduce wasteful information...

We study agents' information acquisition decisions in a beauty contest game when they can access multiple information sources with different content and clarity. Each information source sends a signal with a common noise, and each agent observes this signal with an additional idiosyncratic...

We show that hedge funds gain an information advantage from their prime broker banks regarding the banks' corporate borrowers. The connected hedge funds make abnormally large trades in the stocks of borrowing firms prior to loan announcements, and these trades outperform other trades. The...