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Markets for Information: Of Inefficient Firewalls and Efficient Monopolies

Category: Security

Overview This paper studies, within a formal model, market environments where information is costly to acquire and is of use also to potential competitors. Agents may then sell, or buy, reports - of unverifiable quality - over the information acquired and choose the trades in the market on the basis of what they learnt. The paper finds that, in equilibrium, information is acquired when its costs are not too high and in that case it is also sold, though reports are typically noisy. Also, the market for information tends to be a monopoly, and there is inefficiency given by underinvestment in information acquisition.

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Publisher
Universidad Carlos III Madrid
File Format
PDF
Date Published
Nov 5, 2008
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Topics
Firewalls, Network Security, Security Management

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