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Much of economics assumes that higher incentives increase participation in a transaction only because they exceed more people's reservation price. This paper shows theoretically and experimentally that when information about the consequences is costly, higher incentives also change reservation...
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This paper reports on experiments testing the viability of markets for cheap talk information. We find that the poor quality of the information transmitted leads to a collapse of information markets. The reasons for this are surprising given the previous experimental results on cheap-talk games....
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behavior of others. This may lead to welfare-reducing 'overreactions' to public signals. We present an experiment based on a …
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Asymmetric information can distort market outcomes. I study how the online disclosure of information affects consumers' behavior and firms' incentives to upgrade product quality in markets where information is traditionally limited. I first build a model of consumer search with firms' endogenous...
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decision. We report results from lab experiments focused on such information-collection processes. We consider decisions … decision accuracies over time. Furthermore, groups using majority rule yield especially hasty and inaccurate decisions …
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challenges and design recommendations that may be of help for practitioners planning to conduct an information experiment. We …
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optimal production decision after experimentation, we find over-experimentation to be optimal. The asymmetric information …
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’ reviews on social media platforms in search for trustworthy sellers. We present a natural field experiment that examines the …
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We report the results of an experiment on selective exposure to information. A decision maker interested in learning … informed on the state, they report it truthfully; when uninformed, they report their favorite state. A Bayesian decision maker … source even when prior beliefs are strongly unbalanced and this source is less informative. Our experiment suggests that base …
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decision maker's prior information to be asymmetric across choices. In this paper, I solve the RI-logit model analytically for …, decision makers can be biased, display aversion to prior uncertainty, and thus tend to select choices that are familiar (i …
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