We study adoption by more than 150,000 households of an optional transitional water tariff implemented in the South … look at the timing of the call, showing how most customers choose to call early on, when less information is available, but …

described for the case where the two parties can simultaneously reveal information publicly to uninformed voters. Inverse …

In many countries, lenders are not permitted to use information about past defaults after a specified period of time … permit lenders to fully utilize past information. We also argue that forgetting must be the outcome of a regulatory … intervention by the government — no lender would willingly agree to ignore information available to him. Finally, we show that the …

A rational-expectations equilibrium with positive demand for financial information does exist under fully revealing … average portfolio demand information in equilibrium if they can adjust portfolio size. More information diminishes the … endowments strongly differ from the average portfolio are worse off. Under fully revealing price, information market equilibria …

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 …

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

appropriate information provision enhances efficiency. We discuss extensions of the model and argue that subsidies may be a … property of a signalling equilibrium to overcome credibility problems in information provision. In addition we point out … possible problems with overreaction to public information. Furthermore, we suggest a new focus for development policy. …

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