Obtaining information about changes in market conditions is vital for the survival of the firms operating in a changing … environment. In this paper, we offer a theory of information flows in a setting in which the principal faces a project choice and … between the project and the environment. Distortions in information flows arise since the production cost is known only to the …

An entrepreneur contracts with a consultant, who is protected by limited liability, to supply information about the … probability than a bad one. The entrepreneur makes an upfront payment that the consultant can either invest in information … entrepreneurs so long as his referrals remain high. The principal under-utilizes information in settings (i) and (ii). In setting …

information from reputation-concerned advisors. Very high reputation concerns of the decision maker destroy her incentives to seek … literature, we show how reputation concerns can improve efficiency through better aggregation of information. Prior uncertainty …/or advisors may worsen information aggregation through its impact on the advice-seeking incentives, if the reputation concerns are …

I study reputation models in which information about the long-run player's past behavior is dispersed among short …-run players. I identify two challenges to reputation building when such information is aggregated via the short-run players …-run player's current period action, I propose a resistent to learning condition under which reputation fails. This is because the …

This essay considers the role of reputational information in our marketplace. It explains how well …-functioning marketplaces depend on the vibrant flow of accurate reputational information, and how misdirected regulation of reputational … information could harm marketplace mechanisms. It then explores some challenges created by the existing regulation of reputational …

the last decade large efforts have been made to increase the availability of information to travelers by means of advanced … traveler information systems (ATIS). This paper reviews economic aspects of information in transport markets. First, I will … discuss information acquisition from an economics perspective by characterizing costs and benefits of information, leading to …