Given an increasing presence in the public sphere, what role do economic experts play in shaping public opinion on … information regarding the distribution of opinion on these issues among economists. We also examine the extent and role of trust … in economists within the public. On average, we find meaningful changes in public opinion in the direction of expert …

We introduce the notion of verifiable information into a model of sequential debate among experts who are motivated by … career concerns. We show that self-censorship may hamper the efficiency of information aggregation, as experts withhold … phenomenon, and the probability of the correct state of the world being revealed always converges to one as the group of experts …

Markets for expert services are characterized by information asymmetries between experts and consumers. We analyze the … effects of consumer information, where consumers suffer from either a minor or serious problem and only experts can infer the … endorsed by good signals and fundamentally changed by bad signals. Experts condition their cheating on a consumer's risk of …