An uninformed sender designs a mechanism that discloses information about her type to a privately informed receiver … willing to act. Using a linear programming approach, I characterize optimal information disclosure and provide conditions … not monotonic in the precision of the receiver's private information. …

The current paper defines the optimal sequential information gathering structure of a rational utility maximizer … of information from a set of multidimensional goods. We show how this problem, hardly ever considered in the literature …, does not admit a simple or intuitive solution. Indeed, while the standard sequential search and information gathering …

does so at the price of sub-optimal decision solution truncating vital non-linear information ordinarily accounted for by …