This paper investigates how information affect voting behaviour. There exist a large literature suggesting that … voters can not make up for their lack of information using shortcuts. Furthermore, the errors uninformed voters make do not …

We study whether information about imminent future dividends can abate bubbles in experimental asset markets. Using the … about the future prospects of an asset. We also find that asymmetric information has a similar abating impact on bubbles as …

no information. This effect raised the mean purification expenditure in the sample by 10 percent. By way of comparison …

To what extent does information affect the demand for environmental quality? A randomly selected group of households in … weeks than households that received no information. By way of comparison, an additional year of schooling of the most … their water quality. These results indicate that the issue of under-provision of information needs to be addressed when …

. We apply GPAL to a homogeneous good Bertrand duopoly experiment with random matching and population pricing information … own experience overwhelmingly dominates learning, despite the useful information about behavior of potential future …

-biased agents to avoid information about negative future impacts of such activities. We then confront our model with data from an … experiment using prepared, restaurant-style meals—a good that is transparent in immediate pleasure (taste) but non-transparent in … (58 percent) chose to ignore free information on calorie content, leading at-risk subjects to consume significantly more …

While standard theory assumes rational, optimizing agents under full information, the latter is rarely found in reality …. Information has to be acquired and processed—both involving costs. In rational-inattentiveness models agents update their … information set only when the benefit outweighs the information cost. We test the rational-inattentiveness model in a controlled …

This paper investigates the role of endogenous timing of decisions on coordination under asymmetric information. In the … coordination: a learning effect (early decisions reveal information) and a complementarity effect (early decisions eliminate …

democracies, governments need to convince their populations through efficient and persuasive information campaigns. In the context …, with 175 participants, to explore what type of information can induce change in vaccination intentions at both aggregate …, and that it is information of a purely scientific nature that has the only significant positive effect on intention to …