This paper studies the influence of information on entry choices in a competition with a controlled laboratory … experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition … productivity. Information on the opponent is a promising nudge to raise individuals' awareness towards the complexity of the …

The paper examines the economic role of modelling information on the decision problem of an exporting firm under … exchange rate risk and hedging. Information is described in terms of market transparency, i.e., a publicly observable signal … conveys more information about the random foreign exchange rate. We analyze the interaction between market transparency and …

substantial socioeconomic gradient. We focus on information gaps - specifically, incomplete information about college benefits and …-college-age) child attending college. We simulate an "information intervention", and find that were individuals to be provided with the …

socioeconomic gradient. We focus on information gaps – specifically, incomplete information about college benefits and costs – as a … potential explanation for these patterns. For this purpose, we conduct an information experiment about college returns and costs … outcomes of interest. Respondents are then randomly exposed to one of two information treatments, which respectively provide …

supplied information. Outside of the lab, it is difficult to disentangle the effect of the cost of information itself from the … effect of self-selection by individuals who tend to gain the most from this information. We thus create an environment in the … lab where subjects are offered additional, useful and identical information on the state of the world across treatments …

ignorance: 46% of subjects choose to ignore calorie information, and these subjects subsequently consume more calories on … risk. Further, we find that the prevalence of strategic ignorance largely negates the effectiveness of calorie information … provision: on average, subjects who have the option to ignore calorie information consume about the same number of calories as …