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Conventional security infrastructures in the Internet cannot be directlyadopted to ambient systems, especially if based on short-range communi-cation channels: Personal, mobile devices are used and the participants arepresent during communication, so privacy protection is a crucial issue....
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Using a unique dataset containing separate information on the base andbonus pay of over a million workers, we provide …
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members of an information sharingCooperative. Once collected, information about the location of productive sh-ing sites is an … excludable public good. We show that independent shermen donot internalize the full value of information and do not replicate rst …-best searchpatterns. An information sharing Cooperative faces a free-riding problem as eachmember prefers that another undertake costly …
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This paper reviews and synthesizes the theory of information economics and empiricalevidence on how information changes … the behavior of consumers, households and firms. I show thatconsumers respond to new information in food experiments but …
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buyersshould be asked to bid. In addition, these mechanisms must induce the bidders toacquire information about their valuations … and to reveal this information truthfully.Using a generalized Groves principle, we prove a very general “full extraction … information and could have observed directly theirvaluations once they are informed. We also present appealing implementations …
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industry and environmental groups have disseminatingconflicting private information about GM foods. This paper develops a … unique methodology forvaluing independent third-party information in such a setting and applies this method toconsumers … randomized information and labeling treatments.The average value of third-party information per lab participant is small, but the …
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expansions and recessions. We find that the information content of macroeconomic announcements is mostimportant when it contains …
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Empirical investigations of analysts forecast surveys concerning earnings realizations find significant time varying biases usually attributed to the analysts liability to cognitive limitations. For example, a positive autocorrelation of analysts forecast errors is commonly explained by...
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The uniqueness of bounded local equilibria under interest rate rules is analyzed in a model with sticky information à … determinacy in the associated full-information, flex-price equivalent. The analysis follows from boundedness considerations on the …
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The utility maximisation problem is considered for investors with anticipative additional information. We distinguish …
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