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Between agora and shopping mall
Falkinger, Josef (contributor) - 2008
, though not in all cases. -- Globalisation ; agenda-setting ; information-rich societies ; scarcity of attention ; advertising … of individuals to information. Goods advertising is competing with political information for people's attention. This … public policy. Complementing economic integration with political integration can increase the gains from globalisation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003719635
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Biased perceptions of income distribution and preferences for redistribution : evidence from a survey experiment
Cruces, Guillermo; Perez Truglia, Ricardo; Tetaz, Martín - 2011
Individual perceptions of income distribution play a vital role in political economy and public finance models, yet there is little evidence regarding their origins or accuracy. This study examines how individuals form these perceptions and posits that systematic biases arise from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009306315
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Groupthink : collective delusions in organizations and markets
Bénabou, Roland - 2013
This paper investigates collective denial and willful blindness in groups, organizations and markets. Agents with anticipatory preferences, linked through an interaction structure, choose how to interpret and recall public signals about future prospects. Wishful thinking (denial of bad news) is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009729409
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Review of the recent trends in development economics research: with experience from the federal region of Kurdistan
Heshmati, Almas (contributor) - 2007
This study is a review of the recent trends in development economics research. The focus is on the development in the recent decades as a result of increased globalization of knowledge, technologies and economies. In particular I look at the development in a number area where similar trends are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003646693
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How transparency kills information aggregation : theory and experiment
Fehrler, Sebastian; Hughes, Niall - 2015
We investigate the potential of transparency to influence committee decision-making. We present a model in which career concerned committee members receive private information of different type-dependent accuracy, deliberate and vote. We study three levels of transparency under which career...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010516456
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An experimental test of a committee search model
Hizen, Yoichi; Kawata, Keisuke; Sasaki, Masaru - 2012
The objective of this paper is to design a laboratory experiment for an infinite-horizon sequential committee search model in order to test some of the implications obtained by the model in Albrecht, Anderson, and Vroman (2010) (AAV). We find that, compared with single-agent search, the search...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009621562
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Competing with asking prices
Lester, Benjamin; Visschers, Ludo; Wolthoff, Ronald - 2013
In many markets, sellers advertise their good with an asking price. This is a price at which the seller is willing to take his good off the market and trade immediately, though it is understood that a buyer can submit an offer below the asking price and that this offer may be accepted if the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009696885
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Overconfidence is a social signaling bias
Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Götte, Lorenz; … - 2010
Evidence from psychology and economics indicates that many individuals overestimate their ability, both absolutely and relatively. We test three different theories about observed relative overconfidence. The first theory notes that simple statistical comparisons (for example, whether the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003944720
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Attention discrimination : theory and field experiments with monitoring information acquisition
Bartoš, Vojtěch; Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie; … - 2014
We link two important ideas: attention is scarce and lack of information about an individual drives discrimination in selection decisions. Our model of allocation of costly attention implies that applicants from negatively stereotyped groups face "attention discrimination": less attention in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337423
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News media and crime perceptions : evidence from a natural experiment
Matrorocco, Nicola; Minale, Luigi - 2018
In democracies voters rely on media outlets to learn about politically salient issues. This raises an important question: how strongly can media affect public perceptions? This paper uses a natural experiment - the staggered introduction of the Digital TV signal in Italy - to measure the effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011853454