coarse performance information lead to bargaining asymmetries. In addition, we find that bargainers' subjective entitlements … relative contributions of involved agents are blurred; either by lack of information about the actual performance of … bargaining process from opening offers to (dis)agreements and find that uncertainties in surplus production and (even) a very …

benefits only if they aggregate their private information. Some members of the society, however, are harmed by socially … desirable policies and aim at manipulating information aggregation by misrepresenting their private information. We show that … information can be aggregated and a socially desirable policy can be implemented under a new class of democratic mechanisms …

education spending and teacher salaries falls when respondents receive information about existing levels. Treatment effects vary … by prior knowledge in a manner consistent with information effects rather than priming. Support for salary increases is …’ lower support for increases. Information about the tradeoffs between specific spending categories shifts preferences from …

I present the following proposal: information revealed during non-cartel investigations by competition law enforcement … investigate and prosecute cartels. Currently, in several jurisdictions, information acquired in, for example, a M&A investigation … that govern information use. Reviewing the management and corporate strategy literature, I note that M&As form a vital part …

Economists usually think that rational voters have little incentives to acquire costly information. We present a … information if media technology is available because then they do not condition their informational decisions on being pivotal …-ride. Further, we show how the quality of information depends on the size of the electorate, the prior knowledge of voters and on …

No voters cast their votes based on perfect information, but better educated and richer voters are on average better … strong correlation between income and political information, Congress representatives vote more conservatively, which is also …

measures of workers’ productivity and trustworthiness and make this information available to potential employers. Our data show …

When a principal’s monitoring information is private (non-verifiable), the agent should be concerned that the principal … could misrepresent the information to reduce the agent’s wage or collect a monetary penalty. Restoring credibility may lead … when the private information arrives in time to rescale the agent’s effort. Rescaling is more effective than pure monetary …

with various empirical findings, is the assumption that information about output decisions flows more freely within a …

have better information about the state of the world than voters. Three types of institutions are compared: direct …