In strategic relationships, the control of information is an important instrument for coordinating and incentivizing actions. In this paper, we consider a game with asymmetric information where a principal privately observes the security state of a system and chooses a signal to disclose his information strategically to an agent, who then takes a strategic action that affects the utility of both. We study the problem of designing an optimal information disclosure mechanism for the principal in both static and dynamic settings. In the dynamic setting, unlike the existing works, we consider non-myopic players who are attempting to maximize their long-run incentives. Using future information revelation as the basis for promises and threats, we design an optimal information disclosure mechanism that maximizes the principal's utility, and provides the agent with strong incentives to obey.
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