endogenous information acquisition, using tailored surveys of firms and households. First, we show that firms perceive a greater … exposure to exchange rate movements than households, which is reflected in higher levels of information acquisition and less … rate information strongly increases in various proxies for stake size. Second, households who perceive higher costs of …

estimation of a large VAR through Bayesian techniques. Loans to households emerge as the most important driver of economic …

information frictions among firms and households. First, firms’ expectations about the central bank policy rate, inflation, and … aggregate unemployment are more aligned with expert forecasts and less dispersed than households’. Second, there is … substantially more heterogeneity in information frictions within households than within firms. Third, consistent with firms having …

We provide evidence for an expectation gap, where risk-averse as well as impatient households and experts provide …

becomes lessdistinctive; and or it introduces advertising.These are timely issues, given the extent to which public … broadcasters are increasingly criticised forseeking popularity, losing distinctiveness, and in many cases, introducing advertising … parallels to other sectors where services are also offered free at the point of access, butfinanced by advertising. The most …

strategically set termination fees to induce fragmentation. This takes place when advertising revenues are potentially large but … identify an important link between termination fees, the online advertising market and Internet fragmentation. We extend the … model to account for multi-homing consumers, vertically integrated ISPs, third-party advertising platforms and heterogeneous …

We implement a new approach for estimating the persuasive effects of political advertising. Our empirical strategy … patterns during the 2004 and 2008 presidential campaigns, our results indicate that total political advertising has virtually … contrast, we find a positive and economically meaningful effect of advertising on candidates’ vote shares. Evidence from a …