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 …

surviving the contest for attention. Application of the equilibrium analysis to changes in information technologies and …

This paper investigates the strategies of a data broker in selling information to one or to two competing firms that … can price-discriminate consumers. The data broker can strategically choose any segment of the consumer demand (information … broker are maximized when (1) information identifies the consumers with the highest willingness to pay; (2) consumers with a …

which is used for updating beliefs. Thus, a better information system affects the distribution of human capital in each …) If the relative measure of risk aversion is less (more) than 1 then more information raises (reduces) income inequality …. (b) When a risk sharing market is available better information results in higher inequality regardsless of the measure …

identify an asymmetric information problem: borrowers signal low financial risk to banks who are uncertain about borrower risk …

estimating risk exposure from cross-section data containing information on the means of financing health payments. We estimate …