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We experimentally study the effect of information about competitors ́actions on cartel stability and firms ́incentives … information is available and participants cannot communicate. In contrast, when communication is possible, results reverse …: Markets become less competitive and cartels become more stable when individualized information is available. We also observe …
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traffic information on traveller behaviour. Specifically, we distinguish between the marginal impact of expected travel times …-phone with traffic information as a reward in our experiment respond to the deviation of actual travel times from the expectation …, which they did not do before. This we interpret as evidence that traffic information indeed affects behaviour. We also find …
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the last decade large efforts have been made to increase the availability of information to travelers by means of advanced … traveler information systems (ATIS). This paper reviews economic aspects of information in transport markets. First, I will … discuss information acquisition from an economics perspective by characterizing costs and benefits of information, leading to …
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This paper uses Reuters exchange rate data to investigate thecontributions to the price discovery process by individual banks in theforeign exchange market. We propose multivariate time series models aswell as models in tick time to study the dynamic relations between thequotes of individual...
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political process and the production of policy relevant information; on the role played by probing into candidates' past; and on …
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We identify the conditions under which voters can induce political parties to collect information and to select … voting rule should encourage parties to collect information. Voting rules that focus on the opposition party sometimes … information. However, in contrast to office motivated parties, policy motivated parties will sometimes select policies that …
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advanced traveller information systems (ATIS). We examine the properties of the information market, and in particular, the … relationship between monopoly information pricing and road system efficiency. From model experiments, we find that increasing … information penetration will lead to negative external effects for the already informed drivers. Furthermore, monopoly information …
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and the firm can base its incentive payments on good information. Competition, however, may allow themarket and explicit …
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In this paper, we analyze the interaction between an incumbent firm's financial contract with abank and its product market decisions in the face of the threat of entry, in a dynamic model.The main results of the paper are: there exists a separating equilibrium with no limit pricing; thelow-cost...
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Collective decision procedures should balance the incentives they provide toacquire information and their capacity to … aggregate private information. In a decisionproblem in which a project can be accepted or rejected once information about its … the other agent's vote.This in turn determines the decision to acquire information. In the debate about a rationalchoice …
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