The Design and Price of Information

Dirk Bergemann, Alessandro Bonatti and Alex Smolin

No 11412, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: This paper analyzes the trade of information between a data buyer and a data seller. The data buyer faces a decision problem under uncertainty and seeks to augment his initial private information with supplemental data. The data seller is uncertain about the willingness-to-pay of the data buyer due to this private information. The data seller optimally offers a menu of (Blackwell) experiments as statistical tests to the data buyer. The seller exploits differences in the beliefs of the buyerÂ’s types to reduce information rents while limiting the surplus that must be sacriÂ…ced to provide incentives.

Keywords: Selling information; Experiments; Mechanism design; Price discrimination; Product differentiation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D42 D82 D83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-07
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