In situations where a biased sender provides verifiable information to a receiver, in order to influence her decision, we study how strategic reporting affects the incentives to search for information. Research provides series of signals that can be used selectively in reporting. We show that...

Using French data, we provide: a) causal evidence that a drop in local public goods provision decreases private sector activity, and b) evidence consistent with monopsony power of the public sector in local labor markets. We introduce a public sector with these two key characteristics in an...