for information aggregation ensure that individuals behave as if they were engaging in informative voting over the level … of public good provision. It is shown that the use of information by an optimal provision rule is inversely related to …

not have perfect control over information flows. Rather, information seeking can be affected by changing the information … default as well as the price of information. The default is one either with or without information about others' contributions …, and having information comes with a positive, zero or negative financial incentive. When information comes without a …

benefits only if they aggregate their private information. Some members of the society, however, are harmed by socially … desirable policies and aim at manipulating information aggregation by misrepresenting their private information. We show that … information can be aggregated and a socially desirable policy can be implemented under a new class of democratic mechanisms …

benefits only if they aggregate their private information. Some members of the society, however, are harmed by socially … desirable policies and aim at manipulating information aggregation by misrepresenting their private information. We show that … information can be aggregated and a socially desirable policy can be implemented under a new class of democratic mechanisms …

The effects of (private, small-scale) copying on the pricing behavior of producers of information goods are studied …