A lack of transparency about policy performance can pose a major obstacle to welfare-enhancing policy competition … misperceive the performance of their state’s education system. Experimentally providing performance information polarizes citizens …’ educational performance. Parliamentarians’ support for the transparency policy is opportunistic: Performance information increases …

A lack of transparency about policy performance can pose a major obstacle to welfare-enhancing policy competition … misperceive the performance of their state's education system. Experimentally providing performance information polarizes citizens …' educational performance. Parliamentarians' support for the transparency policy is opportunistic: Performance information increases …

aid applicants within IA, rather than to abandon it. In a laboratory experiment, we first document a substantial gap in … information on past applications levels the playing field. The treatment is effective in partially reducing the gap between …

equilibrium for the immediate acceptance mechanism. This finds support in the experiment. Moreover, the lottery quota leads to …

them. Through a pre-registered and theory-guided laboratory experiment, we provide evidence that such reciprocal …

both sophisticated and naive procrastinators to reduce time-inconsistent behavior. A field experiment on exercising …

incomplete information about the partners' preferences. We find that there is no stable mechanism in standard two-sided markets … their implications for efficient information and mechanism design. …

Temporal aggregation in general introduces a moving average (MA) component in the aggregated model. A similar feature …