Diagnostic information allows an agent to predict the state of nature about the success of an investment project better … than the prior. We analyze the optimal pricing scheme for selling diagnostic information to buyers with different … all buyers. The value of diagnostic information is the difference in expected payoffs with and without it, and we show …

We examine whether the desire for more information is people's dominant motive for reading economic and political news … experimentally vary people's beliefs about the informativeness of news. Inconsistent with the desire for more information being the … information reduce their demand for news from this newspaper. Furthermore, treated respondents who think that a news outlet is …

insured individuals. Thus, the functioning of social norms depends crucially on information, in particular on what norm … enforcers are able to observe about an insured individual's behavior. Information is also decisive when distinguishing between …