political process and the production of policy relevant information; on the role played by probing into candidates' past; and on …

randomized experiment. Half of the students who responded to an Internet questionnaire were given factual information on loan … part of agents’ information sets. This is illustrated by government student loans in the Netherlands which are intended to … this is due to limited knowledge about these conditions. We examine the importance of information constraints through a …

conduct an experiment in which the shares of girls in workgroups for first year students in economics and business are …

reputational concerns lead agents e.g. to ignore valuable information, to herd, and to become overly risk averse. We explore how …

voting, where voters choose from three options. We are interested in the occurrence of strategic voting in an environment … where Condorcet cycles may occur. In particular, we focus on how information about the distribution of preferences affects … information; (ii) the relative importance of the intermediate candidate; (iii) the electorate's relative support for one …

We identify the conditions under which voters can induce political parties to collect information and to select … policies which are optimal from the representative voter’s point of view. We show that when parties are office motivated the … voting rule should encourage parties to collect information. Voting rules that focus on the opposition party sometimes …

Collective decision procedures should balance the incentives they provide to acquire information and their capacity to … aggregate private information. In a decision problem in which a project can be accepted or rejected once information about its … the other agent's vote. This in turn determines the decision to acquire information. In the debate about a rational choice …

the last decade large efforts have been made to increase the availability of information to travelers by means of advanced … traveler information systems (ATIS). This paper reviews economic aspects of information in transport markets. First, I will … discuss information acquisition from an economics perspective by characterizing costs and benefits of information, leading to …

the size of credible deviations. In our experiment, we find support for the relevance of credible deviations. In addition …