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Human utility embodies a number of seemingly irrational aspects. The leading example in this paper is that utilities often depend on the presence of salient unchosen alternatives. Our focus is to understand <i>why</i> an evolutionary process might optimally lead to such seemingly dysfunctional features...
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What are the value and form of optimal persuasion when information can be generated only slowly? We study this question … in a dynamic model in which a `sender' provides public information over time subject to a graduality constraint, and a … sender's equilibrium value function and information provision. We show that the graduality constraint inhibits information …
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We present an electoral theory on the public provision of local public goods to an imperfectly informed electorate. We show that electoral incentives lead to greater spending if the electorate is not well informed. A more informed electorate induces candidates to target funds only to specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012215297
Human utility embodies a number of seemingly irrational aspects. The leading example in this paper is that utilities often depend on the presence of salient unchosen alternatives. Our focus is to understand <i>why</i> an evolutionary process might optimally lead to such seemingly dysfunctional features...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005212485
public belief, there are strategic complementarities in the acquisition of private information and, if the cost of … information is sufficiently small, a continuum of equilibrium strategies. Imperfect observation of past prices reduces the … different regimes for the evolution of the price, the volume of trade, and information acquisition. …
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We analyze price transparency in a dynamic market with private information and interdependent values. Uninformed buyers …
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We study when equilibrium prices can aggregate information in an auction market with a large population of traders. Our … main result identifies a property of information---the betweenness property---that is both necessary and sufficient for … information aggregation. The characterization provides novel predictions about equilibrium prices in complex, multidimensional …
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interaction between payoff and information parameters with asymmetric groups. We find that the strategic complementarity in the … slopes of traders' demands is reinforced by inference effects from prices, and we display the role of payoff and information …
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public belief, there are strategic complementarities in the acquisition of private information and, if the cost of … information is sufficiently small, a continuum of equilibrium strategies. Imperfect observation of past prices reduces the … different regimes for the evolution of the price, the volume of trade, and information acquisition. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005812742
In games with incomplete information, conventional hierarchies of belief are incomplete as descriptions of the players …' information for the purposes of determining a player's behavior. We show by example that this is true for a variety of solution … concepts. We then investigate what is essential about a player's information to identify behavior. We specialize to two player …
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