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-biased agents to avoid information about negative future impacts of such activities. We then confront our model with data from an … (58 percent) chose to ignore free information on calorie content, leading at-risk subjects to consume significantly more …
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In this work we study the case of agents willing to engage in a Renewable Energy Community (REC). The municipality – being the promoter of the REC – burdens all the investment costs (RE plants, storage, local grid interventions) and entrusts an aggregator of its operation paying a fixed...
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We report results from a laboratory experiment that explores the effects of preference communication and leader selection mechanisms in group decision-making. In a setting where all members of a group get the same payoff based on the group leader's decision of how much risk to take, we study the...
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was decreased by forty percent relative to the control. (3) The party information significantly affected the choices … information interacted with educational level in only eight out of forty choice sets, suggesting that even the more educated … two to ten relative to the control. These findings suggest that the party information helped the respondents to articulate …
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We define a generalized state-space model with interactive unawareness and probabilistic beliefs. Such models are desirable for many potential applications of asymmetric unawareness. We develop Bayesian games with unawareness, define equilibrium, and prove existence. We show how equilibria are...
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activities. An efficient communication protocol grants complete information payoffs to all organization members, thereby … overcoming asymmetric information problems at no cost. This paper characterizes efficient protocols assuming that: (i) some …
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We consider a setting in which two potential merger partners each possess private information pertaining both to the … profitability of the merged entity and to stand-alone profits, and we investigate the extent to which this private information makes …
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subject to a private information problem. The asset plays the role of a medium of exchange, but this role can be affected by … information, a set of experiments with adverse selection where the terminal value of notes are determined exogenously, and a set …
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No voters cast their votes based on perfect information, but better educated and richer voters are on average better … strong correlation between income and political information, Congress representatives vote more conservatively, which is also …
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