What drives workers to seek information from their peers? And how does communication affect employee performance? Answers have proven elusive due to problems obtaining precise measures of white collar output and of observing the information individuals consume. We address these questions using...

Conversations are vessels through which information travels. To understand how investment information spreads via person-to-person conversations, I observe paired investors in a well-controlled experiment. While self-enhancement bias suggests that investors are more likely to discuss their...

In this paper, a tax game with audit costs as a public bad is designed to investigate the impact of public disclosure on tax evasion experimentally. Three different types of tax privacy are tested, ranging from complete privacy to full disclosure. We expect to observe two different effects:...

Informational privacy is the ability to govern when others may collect your information and how they may use it. Norms can, and do, provide such governance, as Helen Nissenbaum's seminal work shows. The relevant norms are informational norms, social norms that govern the collection, use, and...

We study markets for sensitive personal information. An agent wants to communicate with another party but any revealed information can be intercepted and sold to a third party whose reaction harms the agent. The market for information induces an adverse sorting effect, allocating the information...