Search Results - subject:"INFORMATION processing"

Ex ante contracting with endogenously determined communication plans

Yazar, Jülide - In: Economic Theory 18 (2001) 2, pp. 439-450

In this paper we introduce a new model of ex ante contracting for economies with asymmetric information to examine endogenously determined communication plans for information sharing in the interim stage. In contrast to the models used in previous research, in the present model agents negotiate...

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More nonconcavities in information processing functions

LINDSTÄDT, Hagen - In: Theory and Decision 51 (2001) 2, pp. 351-365

The productivity of (human) information processing as an economic activity is a question that is raising some interest … conditions, this information processing function has repeated convexities with ongoing processing activity. Even for smooth …

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The Wage Expectations of European College Students

Brunello, Giorgio; Lucifora, Claudio; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

Expected earnings and expected returns to education are seen by labor economists as a major determinant of educational attainment. In spite of this, the empirical knowledge about expectations and their formation is scarce. In this paper we report the results of the first systematic study of the...

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Pizzas: p or Square? Psychophysical Biases in Area Comparisons

Krider, Robert E.; Raghubir, Priya; Krishna, Aradhna - In: Marketing Science 20 (2001) 4, pp. 405-425

Many product categories, from pizzas to real estate, present buyers with purchase decisions involving complex area judgments. Does a square look larger or smaller than a circle? How much smaller does a circle of 8-inch diameter look when compared to one with a 10-inch diameter? In this paper, we...

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Interaction without reduction: The relationship between personal and sub-personal levels of description

Davies, Martin - In: Mind and Society: Cognitive Studies in Economics and … 1 (2000) 2, pp. 87-105

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Cognitive Uncertainty in Games - A Note on Limited Information Processing and Backward Induction

Clausing, Thorsten - EconWPA - 2000

information processing. In order to analyze this notion, a formal model of the agent's information processing is presented. It is …

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Consumer Decision Making in Online Shopping Environments: The Effects of Interactive Decision Aids

Häubl, Gerald; Trifts, Valerie - In: Marketing Science 19 (2000) 1, pp. 4-21

Despite the explosive growth of electronic commerce and the rapidly increasing number of consumers who use interactive media (such as the World Wide Web) for prepurchase information search and online shopping, very little is known about how consumers make purchase decisions in such settings. A...

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Personality issues and their impact on accounting and auditing

Smith, Malcolm - In: Managerial Auditing Journal 14 (1999) 9, pp. 453-460

The personal characteristics of users of accounting information are largely ignored in both internal and external financial reporting. Explores these differences, to identify the characteristics most likely to impact on management decision making, the successful implementation of accounting...

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Organizational restructuring in response to changes in information-processing technology

Baniak, Andrzej; Cukrowski, Jacek - In: Review of Economic Design 4 (1999) 4, pp. 295-305

This paper examines the effects of changes in information-processing technology on the efficient organizational forms … for efficient organization of information-processing are defined and the architecture of the efficient structures is … information overload of the system are necessary and sufficient conditions for the hierarchical information- processing …

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Simulating Project Work Processes and Organizations: Toward a Micro-Contingency Theory of Organizational Design

Levitt, Raymond E.; Thomsen, Jan; Christiansen, Tore R.; … - In: Management Science 45 (1999) 11, pp. 1479-1495

The Virtual Design Team (VDT) extends and operationalizes Galbraith's (1973) information-processing view of … organizations. VDT simulates the micro-level information processing, communication, and coordination behavior of participants in a … goal incongruency between agents on their information processing and communication behavior while executing more flexible …

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