manipulation of information. Instead of terrorizing citizens into submission, "informational autocrats" artificially boost their … techniques - we document a range of trends in recent autocracies that fit the theory: a decline in violence, efforts to conceal …

information cost decreases, more trade migrates from CM with adverse selection to DM with search frictions. This finding reveals … find that reducing informational asymmetry with costly information acquisition may be detrimental to welfare. We then apply …

perspectives are utilized within this analysis: neoclassical economics, including agency costs, information costs, moral hazard and … market distortion; rational decision making within game theory frameworks under different jurisdictional background …