Editor's preface / Gabriele Siegert, M. Bjørn von Rimscha, and Stephanie Grubenmann -- Information and disinformation about advertising / Kati Förster and Ulli Weish -- Information and disinformation through advertising / Roland Mangold -- Information about users / Andrew McStay -- Inclusion...

One of the main problems in current economic theory is to write contracts which are Pareto optimal, incentive compatible, and also implementable as a perfect Bayesian equilibrium of a dynamic, noncooperative game. The question arises whether it is possible to provide Walrasian type or...

In the following dissertation, I use theory and experiments to study how limited cognition and psychological motives influence individuals' acquisition of, or avoidance of, information in contexts involving multiple players. Chapter 1 considers a game with costly information acquisition in which...