We investigate competition between experts with different motives. A policy-maker has to implement a policy and can either acquire information herself or hire a biased but well-informed expert. We show that the expert charges a fee if interests between the agents are roughly aligned, and pays...

I study the relationship between a firm's organization and its ability to aggregate information under interdependence. The firm must adapt the design of two products to innovations over two attributes, such that information about each attribute affects the design of both products. Agents have...

I examine a cheap talk game with two decisions, two payoff-relevant states, and two senders. The model features interdependence because information about each state affects both decisions. Senders are imperfectly informed and communication depends on the nature of their information. I first...