This paper investigates how information affect voting behaviour. There exist a large literature suggesting that … voters can not make up for their lack of information using shortcuts. Furthermore, the errors uninformed voters make do not …

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 …

theoretical model assuming, first, that the amounts given is private information, only known to the donor and the donee, while the … amounts bequeathed is public information. Second, we assume that parents care about the reputation that their bequest behavior …

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 …

political process and the production of policy relevant information; on the role played by probing into candidates' past; and on …

and the firm can base its incentive payments on good information. Competition, however, may allow themarket and explicit …

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 …

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 …