information to productivity. There are three contributions from this work. First, it distills observations from a diverse … literature as prelude to exploring these theories empirically. Second, it applies two concrete models of information value …, relating them to the economic definition of productivity, while considering how network structure influences information flow …

The new information and communication technology, ICT, induces households to take over tasks from firms and government …

-principal for information procurement processes. Applying the (μ,σ)-principal facilitates and enhances firm internal communication … information levels. …

process, lenders have the opportunity to obtain hard and soft information from the borrower. We analyze more than 108,000 home … equity loans and lines-of-credit applications to study the role of soft and hard information during underwriting. Our dataset … allows us to distinguish lender actions that are based strictly on hard information from decisions that involve the …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the interaction between the availability of financial information and … conducted an experiment to observe the behavior of subjects in three settings, each with a different level of information …. Findings – Results confirm that a dependence relation exists between information, investors' behavioral biases and the herding …

The information produced by sophisticated investors in the stock market may be useful for uninformed depositors. Since … much information is not produced for Shinkin banks (cooperatives) in Japan, relying on the information from the stock …

Articulate knowledge entails the triad: information, interpretation, and judgment. Information is the reading of the … facts through a working interpretation. Much of modern political economy has miscarried by discoursing as though … interpretation were symmetric and final. This move has the effect of flattening knowledge down to information – here dubbed …

when heterogeneity in ability is low. As the economy grows, however, knowledge accumulation increases the return to talent …

information. One technique heavily used by rhetoric employs analogies. Using analogies, one may draw the listener’s attention to … similarities between cases and to re-organize existing information in a way that highlights certain regularities. In this paper we …