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Empirical studies on information communication technologies (ICT) typically aggregate the“information” and … and information,technologies that reduce information costs enable agents to acquire more knowledge and ‘empower …
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This paper analyzes how group lending programs use joint liability to utilize localinformation that borrowers have about each other’s projects through self-selection of groupmembers in the group formation stage. These schemes are shown to lead to positiveassortative matching in group...
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The technological developments in the areas of information and communicationtechnology have generated worldwide …
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Sometimes we believe that others receive harmful information.However, Marschak’s value of information framework … information’s harmfulnessfor oneself. The impact of decision makers’ capabilities to processinformation and of their expectations … maker as a point of reference, this paperintroduces a way for evaluating others’ information from a cross …
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In the context of decision making under risk, additional information can be seen as a resource for the improvement of … decision quality. The value of this improved quality is usually measured using Marschak´s concept of the value of information …. From this point of view, human information processing can easily be understood as a production process transforming the …
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The productivity of (human) information processing as an economicactivity is a question raising some interest. Using … information processing function has repeatedconvexities with ongoing processing activity. Even for smooth changesin the signals …
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Der Beitrag klassifiziert zunächst die für personales Verhalten bedeutsamen Beschränkungen der menschlichen Informationsverarbeitungskapazität in vier Katego-rien und charakterisiert die mengenmäßige Informationsüberlastung als diejenige Kategorie, bei der die mengenmäßige Kapazität...
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-Bayesian way. Individuals either overweigh or underweigh (in Bayesian terms)their private information relative to the public … information revealed by the decisions of othersand each individual’s updating rule is private information. First, we consider a …
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Ratings und Evaluationen erfüllen in ihrer gemeinsamen Bedeutung als Bewertungen undEinschätzungen mediative Aufgaben. Mit der Entstehung der Evaluation von Zielen undZwecken für eher nicht wirtschaftlich unternehmerische Organisation gegenüber derEntwicklung an wirtschaftlichen...
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Spatial datasets contain information relating to the locations of incidents of a disease or otherphenomena. Appropriate … analysis of such datasets can reveal information about the distribution of casesof the phenomena. Areas that contain higher …
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