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

then provide 22 different forms of information regarding past, current and/or future inflation and interest rates …. Information treatments about current and next year's interest rates have a strong effect on household expectations but treatments … constrained capacity to collect and process information.Institutional subscribers to the NBER working paper series, and residents …

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 …

education spending and teacher salaries falls sharply when respondents receive information about existing levels. Treatment … effects vary by prior knowledge in a manner consistent with information effects rather than priming. Support for salary … countries could explain Germans' lower support for increases. Information about the tradeoffs between different categories of …

Using information on the sales of debt claims for 132 U.S. Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases, we show that large trade … pronounced for more opaque distressed firms, when trade creditors' information advantage is likely largest. This evidence shows … that suppliers that extend significant amounts of trade credit hold private information about their trade partners. Trade …