placebic information can significantly impact investors' perception and, therefore, regulation on information that is provided …This study analyzes investors' perception of placebic information and its impact on stock price estimates. We initiate … show that placebic information increases the perceived amount of relevant information. Individual participants …

Information provision experiments have become pivotal in understanding how beliefs influence human behavior in various … social science contexts. These experiments, which manipulate the information sets available to respondents, enable the … methodologies for measuring and updating beliefs, designing effective information treatments, and addressing experimenter demand …

Agents undertaking economic decisions are exposed to an ever-increasing amount of information sources. This paper … investigates how the number of available information sources impacts agents' ability to (i) select reliable sources and (ii) use … guide policy-making decisions, providing evidence on externalities of information production. …

to contribute to the team output. We vary the type of information the second mover receives prior to his effort choice … and find that agents work more when signals are available. Overall, behavior differs from predictions of standard theory …