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Obtaining information about changes in market conditions is vital for the survival of the firms operating in a changing … environment. In this paper, we offer a theory of information flows in a setting in which the principal faces a project choice and … between the project and the environment. Distortions in information flows arise since the production cost is known only to the …
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Depending on the context at hand, people's preference for receiving feedback might differ. Especially in allocation … decisions that directly concern another individual, feedback from the affected person can have positive or negative value. We … study such preferences in a laboratory experiment by eliciting the willingness-to-pay to receive or to avoid verbal feedback …
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information on informational cascades affects overall probability of herding phenomena to occur as well as whether an incorrect …
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effects, first-mover advantage, etc.) in a standard information-based herding model. Our results are based on an internet …
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We report results of an internet experiment designed to test the theory of informational cascades in financial markets (Avery and Zemsky, AER, 1998). More than 6000 subjects, including a subsample of 267 consultants from an international consulting firm, participated in the experiment. As...
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information. These consumers rationally choose to only sporadically update their information and re-compute their optimal …
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Most real world situations which are susceptible to herding are also characterized by direct payoff externalities. Yet, the bulk of the theoretical and experimental literature focuses on pure informational externalities. In this paper we study several different forms of payoff externalities that...
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market and competition does not force firms to provide the relevant information. This finding is also relevant in other …
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market and competition does not force firms to provide the relevant information. This finding is also relevant in other …
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