Information spielt nicht erst seit der digitalen Revolution im Wirtschaftsleben eine herausragende Rolle. Sei es als Information über Güter, etwa über deren Qualität oder Preis, oder als eigenständiges Wirtschaftsgut, z.B. in Form von Nachrichten oder Forschungsergebnissen. Aus einer...

Film studios occasionally withhold movies from critics before their release. These cold openings provide a natural setting to apply laboratory-developed models of limited strategic thinking to the field. In a set of 1303 widely released movies, cold opening is correlated with a 10-30 percent...

Film distributors occasionally withhold movies from critics before their release. Cold openings provide a natural field setting to test models of limited strategic thinking. In a set of 856 widely released movies, cold opening produces a significant 15% increase in domestic box office revenue...

We provide a general characterization of the structure of rational expectations equilibria of any degree of revelation for pure exchange, sequential economies, with deffinitely many states of private information, an incomplete financial market and nominal assets. We estimate the dimension of the...