We study the information aggregation properties of unanimous voting rules in the laboratory. In line with theoretical …

Information is a fundamental component of all financial transactions and markets, but it can arrive in multiple forms …. We define what is meant by hard and soft information and describe the relative advantages of each. Hard information is … quantitative, easy to store and transmit in impersonal ways, and its information content is independent of its collection. As …

This paper explores environments in which either the revelation or diffusion of information, or its incorporation into … methodology and for understanding the process by which stock prices incorporate information. Two environments are highlighted …. First, information is often not revealed in one announcement but rather through a process of gradual public revelation …