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econ.TH2022★ 1 cited
Making Information More Valuable
Mark Whitmeyer
We study what changes to an agent's decision problem increase her value for information. We prove that information becomes more valuable if and only if the agent's reduced-form pay…
econ.TH2022★ 4 cited
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…
econ.TH2022
Buying Opinions
Mark Whitmeyer, Kun Zhang
A principal hires an agent to acquire soft information about an unknown state. Even though neither how the agent learns nor what the agent discovers are contractible, we show the p…