Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/163020 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
CeDEx Discussion Paper Series No. 2016-19
Publisher: 
The University of Nottingham, Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics (CeDEx), Nottingham
Abstract: 
This paper examines the incentives of a firm to invest in information about the quality of its product and to disclose its findings. If the firm holds back information, it might be detected and fined. We show that optimal monitoring is determined by a trade-off. Stricter enforcement reduces the incentives for selective reporting but crowds out information search. Our model implies that (i) the probability of detection and the fine might be complements; (ii) the optimal monitoring policy does not necessarily eliminate selective reporting entirely; (iii) even when there is some selective reporting in equilibrium and more stringent monitoring is costless, increasing the probability of detection might not be beneficial; and (iv) when society values selectively reported information, the optimal fine might not be the largest possible fine.
Subjects: 
strategic information transmission
distrust effect
confidence effect
monitoring
penalty
fine
sanction
detection probability
JEL: 
D82
L15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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