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The rapid evolution of information and communications technology (ICT) and associated digital communications over the … to enhance collaboration and information sharing; censorship circumvention technologies allow people to bypass attempts … to monitor and control information and communication flows. However, as well as unleashing tremendous new opportunities …
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During the Corona pandemic, access to reliable information is particularly relevant in order to be able to take … protective measures. However, migrants and refugees in transit and residence countries often lack such access to information …. This opens the opportunity for alternative sources of raising awareness and information. Corona Songs about COVID-19 and …
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have better information about the state of the world than voters. Three types of institutions are compared: direct …
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This paper studies the influence of information on entry choices in a competition with a controlled laboratory … experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition … productivity. Information on the opponent is a promising nudge to raise individuals' awareness towards the complexity of the …
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internal rivalry. Driven by deregulation and advances in information technologies, many historical institutional distinctions …
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This paper examines search with active learning and correlated information. We firstdevelop a simple model to show how … correlation affects the decision to acquire information.A unique data set on fishing site choice by mid-Atlantic clam fishermen is … declines, i.e., when the opportunity cost of gathering information is low, butalso when catch at familiar sites is on the rise …
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Recent events involving major insurance companies and insurance brokerage firms highlight substantial incentive problems in commercial and reinsurance markets where intermediation takes place. We show that in markets with informed as well as uninformed consumers and heterogeneous risk profiles...
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We consider optimal trade policy for a large country with private information. We show that the optimal tariff leads to … a signaling equilibrium with higher tariffs and lower welfare than under complete information, whereas the optimal … import quota replicates the complete information equilibrium and thus is superior to the tariff. We also show that, with the …
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information from interested parties. Unfortunately, information from interested parties does not provide an accurate picture of … the benefits and risks of new products. This paper examines the effects of information on consumers? demand for new food … products, GM-foods, in an environment where information from one or more interested parties is provided. We design and conduct …
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developed in previous work that relax the strong assumptions on information.We also review some related literature.[...] …
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