Communicating Through and Learning From Falsifiable Evidence: Rulemaking and the Role of Biased Information

• In Event: JSS: Models of Domestic Politics

Brief Overview

I consider how agencies learn about industries they regulate from firms with misaligned preferences. Communication is modeled as a falsifiable report the firm can manipulate. The firm's manipulation is non-monotonic in the agency's level of scrutiny.

Author

• Ephraim Shimko, Princeton University