I examine whether telecommuting, a work arrangement in which employees do not travel to a workplace, affects the acquisition of new information in an environment where thorough search and acquisition of information are essential. On the one hand, telecommuting may impede information acquisition...

This paper considers the problem of information acquisition in an intermediated market, where the specialists have access to superior technology for acquiring information. These informational advantages of specialists relative to households lead to disagreement between the two groups, changing...