Author Archives: Charles E. Wasley

Private Information Acquisition via Freedom of Information Act Requests

By | May 4, 2020

Courtesy of Stephen Glaeser, Bryce Schonberger, Charles E. Wasley, and Jason Xiao Theoretical models explore when and why individuals incur costs to acquire information about a firm that is not publicly available (often referred to as private information acquisition). Empirical evidence of these theories’ implications is virtually non-existent due to the difficulty of observing private… Read More »