We study the voluntary revelation of private information in a labor-market experiment where workers can reveal their productivity at a cost. While rational revelation improves a worker's payoff, it imposes a negative externality on others and may trigger further revelation. Such unraveling can...

Individuals disclose an increasing amount of personal information when buying goods or services. Personal details are revealed despite the rising threat of privacy breaches at firms that collect the information. Yet, we know surprisingly little about the trade-offs individuals consider when...

Following the lead of the United Kingdom and Australia, Hong Kong recently proposed to tighten up the access of directors' residential addresses and identity card or passport numbers by the public during the reform of its Companies Ordinance exercise, but encountered strong opposition from the...