Production, Privacy and Previews: Three Essays on Information Economics

This dissertation is a collection of papers quite varied in the methods used and the topics examined. Common to them all is a focus on the use of information and the use of experiments and quantitative methods for the analysis. In the three experiments I look at the question of monetizing information goods available on the internet; issues of privacy where personal information is the main concern; and the structure of historical record keeping to facilitate future analysis.