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values, a specialist auditor enjoys synergies from information spillovers between clients. These spillovers, however, only …
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This article develops a Bayesian persuasion model examining a manager's incentives to gather information when the … manager can disseminate this information selectively to interested parties (“users”) and when the objectives of the manager … the information, then the manager may gather more precise information. The article identifies conditions under which a …
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's interest in controlling who receives their private information. Participants of an experiment face the decision to share … validated personal information with peers. We compare preferences for sharing potentially embarrassing information (body weight … and height) and non-embarrassing information (address data) with geographically proximate or distant peers. We find that i …
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Although understanding preferences for privacy is of great importance to economists, businesses and politicians little is known about the factors that shape the individual willingness to share personal data. This article provides three experimental studies with a total of 470 participants that...
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The ability of markets to aggregate information through prices is examined in a dynamic environment with unawareness … to their private information, they will eventually reach an agreement, thus generalising the result of Geanakoplos and … Polemarchakis [1982]. Moreover, if the traded security is separable, then agreement is on the correct price and there is information …
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information spillover is due to their incentive, which is to make use of the relative performance evaluation structure under which …In this article, we deal with the topic of intentional information spillover using a model in which both informational … are heterogeneous in the quality of their information, compete with one another in a common task. According to the results …
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strategic advice to taxpayers. This paper formalizes this role, using a simple asymmetric information model where agents can … purchase full information about the government's enforcement rules. In a competitive market for tax preparation services … evasion by revealing full information about its audit rule …
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We propose a deterrence mechanism that utilizes insider information contained in criminal networks. Under this …
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them individually, and impairs information aggregation. The information gain from infringing privacy (e.g. by electronic … surveillance) can be much smaller than expected ceteris paribus. Overall, privacy is essential for any mechanism of information …
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The object of research is information inequality. Information inequality is seen as a socio-economic problem that can … the global and regional levels. The transformation of the information services market depends on the quality of the … positive consequences of information inequality are considered. Along with the growing importance of modern information …
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