monopoly problem when the price imperfectly signals quality to the uninformed buyers. We then study the effect of noise on … output, market price, information flows, and expected profits. The presence of noise may reduce the informational externality …

conveys full information about the quality of the good to uninformed buyers. Deceiving the uninformed buyers by charging a … high price and mimicking a high quality is not profitable when the competitive fringe is large enough. Since a higher price … effect of asymmetric information and learning on the equilibrium outcomes. More uninformed buyers increases the price …

informed to uninformed firms, moderates asymmetric incentives in information acquisition and renders the aggregate learning … outcome approximately acyclical. Our results challenge the prevailing view of procyclical learning as the source of asymmetric … business cycles. -- information choice ; rational expectations ; asymmetric information ; Bayesian learning ; strategic …

analysis to incorporate dynamic learning, multiple products, and consumer heterogeneity …