argue that these findings reflect a situation in which Southern banks have a monopoly of information concerning local firms …

of the BN decomposition when the information set includes other I (1) and/or stationary variables. We show that the … relative importance of the cyclical component depends on the information set, and in particular that multivariate BN … information set includes a variable which Granger-causes output. We illustrate the results for post-war data for the United States. …

-tech groups and direct information on each firm’s access to bank credit, high-tech firms are found to be more likely to be credit …

We survey the recent literature on the role of information in mechanism design. First, we discuss an emerging … literature on the role of endogenous payoff and strategic information for the design and the efficiency of the mechanism. We … specifically consider information management in the form of acquisition of new information or disclosure of existing information …

We consider the role of asymmetric information on the emergence of collusion between criminals and enforcers, in the …

We study the impact of information revelation on efficiency in auctions. In a constrained-efficient mechanism, i.e. a … mechanism that is efficient subject to the incentive-compatibility constraint, any additional information available to bidders …-price sealed-bid auction, revelation of information might lead to efficiency losses. …