Information Sale on Network
Theoretical Economics
2024-04-09 v1
Abstract
This paper studies a stylized model of a monopoly data seller when information-sharing network exists among data buyers. We show that, if the buyers' prior information is sufficiently noisy, the optimal selling strategy is characterized by a maximum independent set, which is the largest set of buyers who do not have information-sharing link at all. In addition, the precision of the seller's data decreases in the number of information-sharing links among buyers, but it is higher than the socially efficient level of precision.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2404.05546,
title = {Information Sale on Network},
author = {Jihwan Do and Lining Han and Xiaoxi Li},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.05546},
year = {2024}
}