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efficiency benchmark designed to address whether the equilibrium use of information is optimal from a social perspective; the …
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I consider a flexible framework of strategic interactions under incomplete information in which, prior to committing their actions (consumption, production, or investment decisions), agents choose the attention to allocate to an arbitrarily large number of information sources about the primitive...
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relation between the equilibrium and the socially optimal degrees of coordination. The former summarizes the private value from …
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relation between the equilibrium and the socially optimal degrees of coordination. The former summarizes the private value from …
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I consider a flexible framework of strategic interactions under incomplete information in which, prior to committing their actions (consumption, production, or investment decisions), agents choose the attention to allocate to an arbitrarily large number of information sources about the primitive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335452
acquisition of information. First, we relate the (in)efficiency in the acquisition of information to the (in)efficiency in the use … of information and explain why efficiency in the use does not guarantee efficiency in the acquisition. Next, we show how …
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the Mirrlees literature), the contingency on fundamentals alone suffices for efficiency. When instead agents have private … of social learning; (iii) restore a certain form of constrained efficiency in the decentralized use of information; (iv …
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acquisition of information. First, we relate the (in)efficiency in the acquisition of information to the (in)efficiency in the use … of information and explain why efficiency in the use does not guarantee efficiency in the acquisition. Next, we show how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010583646
I consider a exible framework of strategic interactions under incomplete information in which, prior to committing their actions (consumption, production, or investment decisions), agents choose the attention to allocate to an arbitrarily large number of information sources about the primitive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011165550
efficiency) fails: social welfare (be it Rawlsian or Weighed Utilitarian) can be increased by assigning some agents to their … least productive sector. By sacrificing production efficiency, the planner incurs second-order losses in total output, but …
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