A school may improve its students' job outcomes if it issues only coarse grades. Google can
reduce congestion on roads by giving drivers noisy information about the state of traffic. A …

This article summarizes and draws connections among diverse streams of theoretical and
empirical research on the economics of privacy. We focus on the economic value and …

We study persuasion mechanisms in linear environments. A receiver has a private type and
chooses between two actions. A sender designs a persuasion mechanism or an experiment …

Privacy is a feature inherent to the use of cash. With steadily increasing market shares of
digital payment platforms, privacy in payments may no longer be attainable in the future. We …

Recycled water is an effective method to rescue regional water shortages and promote
environmental protection. As for end users of recycled water, public attitudes and …

This paper studies competition between firms when consumers observe a private signal of
their preferences over products. Within the class of signal structures that induce pure …

Recycled water, the secondary water source of a city, is vital to alleviate regional water
resource shortage and promote environmental conservation. The attitude and acceptance …

This paper studies sequential Bayesian persuasion games with multiple senders. We
provide a tractable characterization of equilibrium outcomes. We apply the model to study …

We propose a robust solution concept for Bayesian persuasion that accounts for the
Sender's concern that her Bayesian belief about the environment—which we call the …

We analyze a model of competition in Bayesian persuasion in which multiple symmetric
senders vie for the patronage of a receiver by disclosing information about their respective …