The Cnbc Effect: Welfare Effects of Public Information
36 Pages Posted: 25 Aug 2001
Date Written: July 2001
Abstract
What are the welfare effects of enhanced dissemination of public information through the media and disclosures by market participants with high public visibility? For instance, is it always desirable to have frequent and timely publications of economic statistics by government agencies and the central bank? We examine the impact of public information in a setting where agents take actions appropriate to the underlying fundamentals, but they also have a coordination motive arising from a strategic complementarity in their actions. When the agents have no private information, greater provision of public information always increases welfare. However, when agents also have access to independent sources of information, the welfare effect of increased public disclosures is ambiguous.
Keywords: Transparency, Disclosures, Coordination, Overreaction To Public Information
JEL Classification: C7, E58, D8
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