Consider an investment problem with strategic complementarities and incomplete information about returns. This paper … shows that investors aggregate their private information in equilibrium by trading a token and observing its market price … over multiple rounds before making the investment decision. This result is robust to the information environment. The paper …

The standard state-spaces of asymmetric information preclude non-trivial forms of unawareness (Modica and Rustichini …

We characterize a precise comparative static on welfare and the amount of public information in an economy under … uncertainty. Results dating to Hirshleifer (1971) have suggested that information can have negative value in such a setting, but … concept of implementable allocations, the negative relationship between more public information in the sense of Blackwell and …

This article develops a Bayesian persuasion model examining a manager's incentives to gather information when the … manager can disseminate this information selectively to interested parties (“users”) and when the objectives of the manager … the information, then the manager may gather more precise information. The article identifies conditions under which a …

We show that aversion to risk and ambiguity leads to information inertia when investors process public news about … disappears when investors are risk neutral or the news is about idiosyncratic risk. Information inertia leads to news momentum (e …

An information transaction entails the purchase of information. Formally, it consists of an information structure … together with a price. We develop an index of the appeal of information transactions, which is derived as a dual to the agent …'s preferences for information. The index of information transactions has a simple analytic characterization in terms of the relative …

anonymously in a group, could pay a cost either to obtain information about their counterparts, or to create a freely available … attain higher levels of cooperation compared to a treatment without monitoring. Information about past conduct alone thus …

In Bayesian environments with private information, as described by the types of Harsanyi, how can types of agents be …

In Bayesian environments with private information, as described by the types of Harsanyi, how can types of agents be …