Firms with private information about the outcomes of production under uncertainty may face capital (liquidity) constraints that prevent them from attaining efficient levels of investment in a world with costly and/or imperfect monitoring. As an alternative, we examine the efficiency of a simple...

Information aggregation is a key economic function of markets. Evidence on limitations of human cognitive abilities have led some to doubt the usefulness and relevance of rational expectations equilibria in modeling information aggregation. We report results of a computational experiment with...

One of the most relevant and exciting issues in the latest decades in economics had been the asymmetric information and uncertainty, and their effects on market processes and efficiency. Some studies show that markets where information problems or/and uncertainty arise tend to be "networked",...