We begin with the hypothesis that shareholder-wealth effects of corporate transactions differdepending on (a) the specific industry, (b) whether they are horizontal or vertical, and (c) whetherthey are integrations (takeovers) or disintegrations (partial sell-offs). A standard event study...

Sometimes we believe that others receive harmful information. However, Marschak’s value of information framework always assigns non-negative value under expected utility: it starts from the decision maker’s beliefs – and one can never anticipate information’s...

The productivity of (human) information processing as an economic activity is a question that is raising some interest. Using Marschak's evaluation framework, Radner and Stiglitz have shown that, under certain conditions, the production function of this activity has increasing marginal returns...