A central problem in applied empirical work is to separate out the patterns in the data that are due to poor production of the data, such as e.g. non-response and measurement errors, from the patterns attributable to the economic phenomena studied. This paper interprets this inference problem as...

This paper discusses problems and prospects in the empirical analysis of the effects of incomplete information on mutually beneficial activities when direct measures on information are available from traders. In particular, we focus on sexual behavior in the presence of information asymmetries...