Posterior separable cost of information

T Denti - American Economic Review, 2022 - aeaweb.org
We provide testable conditions under which the cost of acquiring information is given by the
expected reduction of a measure of uncertainty (eg, entropy). The assumption, under the …

Optimal persuasion via bi‐pooling

I Arieli, Y Babichenko, R Smorodinsky… - Theoretical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Mean‐preserving contractions are critical for studying Bayesian models of information
design. We introduce the class of bi‐pooling policies, and the class of bi‐pooling …

Market segmentation through information

M Elliott, A Galeotti, A Koh, W Li - Available at SSRN 3432315, 2021 - papers.ssrn.com
An information designer has precise information about consumers' preferences over
products sold by oligopolists. The designer chooses what information to reveal to …