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Call the Dentist! A (Con-)Cavity in the Value of Information
Mark Whitmeyer
A natural way of quantifying the ``amount of information'' in decision problems yields a globally concave value for information. Another (in contrast, adversarial) way almost never…
Can One Hear the Shape of a Decision Problem?
Mark Whitmeyer
We explore the connection between an agent's decision problem and her ranking of information structures. We find that a finite amount of ordinal data on the agent's ranking of expe…
Attraction Via Prices and Information
Pak Hung Au, Mark Whitmeyer
We study the ramifications of increased commitment power for information provision in an oligopolistic market with search frictions. Although prices are posted and, therefore, guid…
A More Informed Sender Benefits the Receiver When the Sender Has Transparent Motives
Mark Whitmeyer
A sender with state-independent preferences (i.e., transparent motives) privately observes a signal about the state of the world before sending a message to a receiver, who subsequ…
Comparison Shopping: Learning Before Buying From Duopolists
Brian C. Albrecht, Mark Whitmeyer
We explore a model of duopolistic competition in which consumers learn about the fit of each competitor's product. In equilibrium, consumers comparison shop: they learn only about…
Costly Evidence and Discretionary Disclosure
Mark Whitmeyer, Kun Zhang
A sender flexibly acquires evidence--which she may pay a third party to certify--to disclose to a receiver. When evidence acquisition is overt, the receiver observes the evidence g…