This paper develops a generalization of the linear quadratic control problem with partial information. As in the standard partial information setting, it is assumed that the state variable is only observed with noise. The idea in this paper is that the information level may be chosen optimally....

Credit spreads and default policy are analyzed in a structural model. Agents have incomplete information about the company's EBIT process and observe it with time delays. When all agents observe the state variable with the same delay, it has a minor effect on credit spreads and default policy....