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 …

An information transaction entails the purchase of information. Formally, it consists of an information structure … together with a price. We develop an index of the appeal of information transactions, which is derived as a dual to the agent …'s preferences for information. The index of information transactions has a simple analytic characterization in terms of the relative …

This textbook incorporates the author's previous book "The Economics of Uncertainty and Insurance" and extends it with … the addition of several new chapters on risk sharing, asymmetric information, adverse selection, signaling and moral … asymmetric information in contractual relationships. It is richly illustrated with 150 figures. It is suitable for both self …

We use a laboratory experiment to study how mutual payoff information affects play in strategic settings. Subjects play … the Prisoner's Dilemma or Stag Hunt game against randomly re-matched opponents under two information treatments. In our … partial-information treatment subjects are shown only their own payoffs, while in our full-information treatment they are …

Consider an investment problem with strategic complementarities and incomplete information about returns. This paper … shows that investors aggregate their private information in equilibrium by trading a token and observing its market price … over multiple rounds before making the investment decision. This result is robust to the information environment. The paper …

We study a dynamic Stackelberg differential game between a buyer and a seller of insurance policies in a spectrally …

biodiversity management has an insurance value to risk-averse users of ecosystem services. We analyze a conceptual ecological …