We experimentally study the effect of information about competitors' actions on cartel stability and firms' incentives … information is available and participants cannot communicate. In contrast, when communication is possible, results reverse …: Markets become less competitive and cartels become more stable when individualized information is available. We also observe …

supplied information. Outside of the lab, it is difficult to disentangle the effect of the cost of information itself from the … effect of self-selection by individuals who tend to gain the most from this information. We thus create an environment in the … lab where subjects are offered additional, useful and identical information on the state of the world across treatments …

Collective decision procedures should balance the incentives they provide toacquire information and their capacity to … aggregate private information. In a decisionproblem in which a project can be accepted or rejected once information about its … the other agent's vote.This in turn determines the decision to acquire information. In the debate about a rationalchoice …

political process and the production of policy relevant information; on the role played by probing into candidates' past; and on …

and the firm can base its incentive payments on good information. Competition, however, may allow themarket and explicit …

We identify the conditions under which voters can induce political parties to collect information and to select … voting rule should encourage parties to collect information. Voting rules that focus on the opposition party sometimes … information. However, in contrast to office motivated parties, policy motivated parties will sometimes select policies that …

advanced traveller information systems (ATIS). We examine the properties of the information market, and in particular, the … relationship between monopoly information pricing and road system efficiency. From model experiments, we find that increasing … information penetration will lead to negative external effects for the already informed drivers. Furthermore, monopoly information …

the last decade large efforts have been made to increase the availability of information to travelers by means of advanced … traveler information systems (ATIS). This paper reviews economic aspects of information in transport markets. First, I will … discuss information acquisition from an economics perspective by characterizing costs and benefits of information, leading to …