We study games in which several principals contract with several privately-informed agents. We show that enabling the principals to engage in contractible private disclosures { by sending private signals to the agents about how the mechanisms will respond to the agents' messages { can...

We study competing mechanism games in which principals simultaneously design contracts to deal with several agents. We show that principals can profit from privately communicating with agents by generating incomplete information in the continuation game they play. Specifically, we construct an...