Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/79155 
Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2002-06
Publisher: 
Rutgers University, Department of Economics, New Brunswick, NJ
Abstract: 
We characterize a precise comparative static on welfare and the amount of public information in an economy under uncertainty. Results dating to Hirshleifer (1971) have suggested that information can have negative value in such a setting, but counterexamples using competitive equilibrium outcomes have suppressed general results to this effect. We show that under the solution concept of implementable allocations, the negative relationship between more public information in the sense of Blackwell and welfare is fully general. Furthermore, Blackwell's ranking is necessary as well as sufficient to obtain our ranking, and hence ours provides an equivalent characterization of his ordering.
Subjects: 
Blackwell's Ordering
Information
Risk Sharing
JEL: 
D80
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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