misperceive the performance of their state’s education system. Experimentally providing performance information polarizes citizens …’ educational performance. Parliamentarians’ support for the transparency policy is opportunistic: Performance information increases … educational performance information may incentivize politicians to implement welfare-enhancing reforms. …

misperceive the performance of their state's education system. Experimentally providing performance information polarizes citizens …' educational performance. Parliamentarians' support for the transparency policy is opportunistic: Performance information increases … educational performance information may incentivize politicians to implement welfare-enhancing reforms. …

We study markets for sensitive personal information. An agent wants to communicate with another party but any revealed … information can be intercepted and sold to a third party whose reaction harms the agent. The market for information induces an … adverse sorting effect, allocating the information to those types of third parties who harm the agent most. In equilibrium …

We study markets for sensitive personal information. An agent wants to communicate with another party but any revealed … information can be intercepted and sold to a third party whose reaction harms the agent. The market for information induces an … adverse sorting effect, allocating the information to those types of third parties who harm the agent most. In equilibrium …

certifier can enable the seller to disclose her private information publicly, as well as gather additional market information …-maximal information-gathering. Thus, optimal contracts eliminate private information but not market uncertainty; even though the latter … would be costless, it is suboptimal as it requires excessive information rents to the seller. Thus, market inefficiencies …

Using a randomized information experiment embedded in a representative survey, we study households' economic … happening in the economy shortly after the pandemic outbreak. Households that receive information on experts' views on the … holds for households that receive information on major monetary and fiscal stimulus measures announced in response to the …

information aggregation. Despite this, unanimity is frequently used in committees making decisions on behalf of society. This …, unanimity can facilitate truthful communication and optimal information aggregation. Theoretically, we show that since agents … laboratory experiment. As predicted, if unanimity is required, subjects are more truthful, respond more to others' messages, and …

chosen under the veil of ignorance and whether there are systematic biases in these choices. In our experiment, individuals …

, implying endogeneity of policy preferences. The information treatment also affects non-partisan swing voters. …