We investigate the role of information strategy in shifting the purchasing preferences of “green” organic consumers … food, to conduct field experiment that involves consumers purchasing on the on-line shop of an Italian organic brand leader … its price premium. Conversely, the science-based message is effective only among consumers who prioritize environmental …

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 …

We investigate whether the simple plurality rule aggregates information efficiently in a large election with three …. With two alternatives and strategic voters, the simple plurality rule aggregates information efficiently in elections with … well, including those in which voters vote informatively. -- efficient information aggregation ; simple plurality rule …

Discounting has to take account of ecosystem services in consumption and production. Previous literature focuses on the … services. This paper focuses on intermediate ecosystem services in production and shows that for limited substitutability and a … be easily substituted in production but not in consumption, the relative price effect is important. Finally, and most …

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 …

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

comparative evidence on public preferences for education spending, we conduct representative experiments with information …, providing information about actual spending and salary levels reduces support for increased education spending from 54 to 40 … preferences are similar across the three countries when the role of status-quo and information are taken into account. …

We examine whether the desire for more information is people's dominant motive for reading economic and political news … experimentally vary people's beliefs about the informativeness of news. Inconsistent with the desire for more information being the … information reduce their demand for news from this newspaper. Furthermore, treated respondents who think that a news outlet is …

implement or they target younger children. We partner text-messaging technology with school information systems to automate the … gathering and provision of information to parents at scale. In a field experiment across 22 middle and high schools, we used …

media consumers becomes more important the larger the number of competing media products. …