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Information gathering is an instinctive response to uncertainty, but such efforts may not fully resolve the uncertainty that prompted them. This implies that proxies for investor information gathering may endogenously reflect investor uncertainty, not only before but also after information...
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Despite a high interest in personal styles of information processing in decision research, measurements of rationality … in Dual Process Theories (DPT) have not been confronted with the normative concept of rationality, e.g. obeying the …. satisficing and option-wise vs. attribute-wise information processing, since they refer to the classical concept of rationality …
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Facing limited attention constraints, financial analysts must strategically choose which information to pay attention to and which information to ignore when making earnings forecasts. I rely on rational inattention theory to develop and test hypotheses on factors that determine analyst...
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This article develops a Bayesian persuasion model examining a manager's incentives to gather information when the manager can disseminate this information selectively to interested parties (“users”) and when the objectives of the manager and the users are not perfectly aligned. The model...
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The paper investigates firm managers’ strategic disclosure interactions of quantitative value estimates when facing a rationally inattentive trader who also gathers qualitative information. Considering a model with two firms and using the Kyle (1985) model to price each firm’s securities, I...
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Individuals with a preference for keeping moral obligations may dislike learning that voluntary contributions are socially valuable: Such information can trigger unpleasant feelings of cognitive dissonance. I show that if initial beliefs about the social value of contributions are sufficiently...
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I enclose a general submission piece discussing information pollution and the problems associated with this phenomenon. I detail how information pollution arises, what challenges it brings for us as IS professionals, and future avenues of research and development that might remedy this problem....
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A number of behavioral finance theories posit that investors adhere to prior beliefs in spite of new information. This paper reports the results of an investment experiment which shows that subjects' inferences are biased by their prior beliefs in a manner that depends on investment outcomes....
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The confirmation bias is a well-known form of motivated reasoning that serves to protect an individual from cognitive discomfort. Hearing rival viewpoints or belief-opposing information creates cognitive dissonance, and so avoiding exposure to, or discounting the validity of, dissonant...
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Individuals with a preference for keeping moral obligations may dislike learning that voluntary contributions are socially valuable: Such information can trigger unpleasant feelings of cognitive dissonance. I show that if initial beliefs about the social value of contributions are sufficiently...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003751905