This is a study of the incentive of firms to disclose private information about their costs to competitors (when firms compete by setting quantitites). This paper expands on previous contributions by analyzing a model in which firms decide whether to disclose their cost information to their...

This study investigates whether economic differences attributable to the length of a state's coastline effected Congressional voting in the 1850s on measures to reform the lighthouse system, a service often thought to be best provided by the government. Probit estimation indicates that...

This paper extends both theory and experimentation in the context of two parties in a group who contribute to a public good with a provision point. In the voluntary contributions game in which a public good is provided if and only if the sum of contributions meets a threshold and the...