about the alleged value of their company to potential buyers. Via random information leaks, buyers can learn the true value …

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. …

Interactions between players with private information and opposed interests are often prone to bad advice and …

conflict of interest, an upfront payment to the sender by the receiver improves information transmission. …

The market for retail financial products (e.g. investment funds or insurance) is marred by information asymmetries …

Interactions between players with private information and opposed interests are often prone to bad advice and …

Interactions between players with private information and opposed interests are often prone to bad advice and …

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 …' characteristics, such as gender, financial knowledge or overconfidence, do not affect these findings. Placebic information does not …

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 …

We review methodological questions relevant for the design of information provision experiments. We first provide a … literature review of major areas in which information provision experiments are applied. We then outline key measurement … challenges and design recommendations that may be of help for practitioners planning to conduct an information experiment. We …