I consider a flexible framework of strategic interactions under incomplete information in which, prior to committing their actions (consumption, production, or investment decisions), agents choose the attention to allocate to an arbitrarily large number of information sources about the primitive...

The paper studies inefficiencies arising in contracting between one principal and N agents when each agent's utility depends on all agents' trades with the principal. When the principal commits to publicly observed bilateral contracts, the distortion is due to the externalities on agents'...

The paper studies inefficiencies arising in contracting between one principal and N agents when each agent's utility depends on all agents' trades with the principal. When the principal commits to publicly observed bilateral contracts, the distortion is due to the externalities on agents'...

Information regarding economic fundamentals is widely dispersed in society, is only imperfectly aggregated through prices or other indicators of aggregate activity, and can not be centralized by the government or any other institution. In this paper we seek to identify policies that can improve...