Most of the empirical literature on consumption behaviour over the last decades has focused on estimating Euler … policy relevant issues. Alternatively, many papers have proposed using the consumption function to forecast behaviour. This … paper follows in this tradition, by deriving an analytical consumption function in the presence of intertemporal non …

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 …

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 … dominant motive for people's news consumption, treated respondents who think that a newspaper is less likely to suppress …