This paper uses laboratory experiments to directly test a central prediction of disclosure theory: that strategic …

We develop a theory that rationalizes the use of a dominant unit of account in an economy. Agents enter into non …

decision. We report results from lab experiments focused on such information-collection processes. We consider decisions … decision accuracies over time. Furthermore, groups using majority rule yield especially hasty and inaccurate decisions …

simple cases, tests confirm that subjects adjust their attention in response to incentives as the theory dictates …

important features of the data they possess. We conduct a field experiment with seaweed farmers to test a model of "learning …

-in-the-field experiment to study information sharing through mobile phone messages. Subjects are rural households in Mozambique who have …

. We use a survey experiment to generate direct evidence on how people acquire and process information, in the context of …

individual decision maker's thinking process as a thought-experiment that takes time and let the decision maker "think ahead …" about future decision problems in yet unrealized states of nature. By formulating an intertemporal, state …-contingent, planning problem, which may involve costly deliberation in every state of nature, and by letting the decision-maker deliberate …