How does public information on asset payoffs affect private information acquisition and aggregated market information? In turn, how do private information and market information affect asset price volatility and liquidity? What are the roles of information costs and market competitivity? To...

Can public information complement private information acquisition? What are the implicationsfor asset market performance? Our paper investigates by constructing a simple bond market in thelaboratory. Human investors observe public information on default probability and then, beforetrading,...