Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/94177 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
SFB/TR 15 Discussion Paper No. 406
Publisher: 
Sonderforschungsbereich/Transregio 15 - Governance and the Efficiency of Economic Systems (GESY), München
Abstract: 
We study ex post information rents in sequential screening models where the agent receives private ex ante and ex post information. The principal has to pay ex post information rents for preventing the agent to coordinate lies about his ex ante and ex post information. When the agent's ex ante information is discrete, these rents are positive, whereas they are zero in continuous models. Consequently, full disclosure of ex post information is generally suboptimal. Optimal disclosure rules trade off the benefits from adapting the allocation to better information against the effect that more information aggravates truth-telling.
Subjects: 
information rents
sequential screening
information disclosure
JEL: 
D82
H57
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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