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This paper studies the influence of information on entry choices in a competition with a controlled laboratory … experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition … productivity. Information on the opponent is a promising nudge to raise individuals' awareness towards the complexity of the …
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Consider an investment problem with strategic complementarities and incomplete information about returns. This paper … shows that investors aggregate their private information in equilibrium by trading a token and observing its market price … over multiple rounds before making the investment decision. This result is robust to the information environment. The paper …
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An entrepreneur contracts with a consultant, who is protected by limited liability, to supply information about the … probability than a bad one. The entrepreneur makes an upfront payment that the consultant can either invest in information … entrepreneurs so long as his referrals remain high. The principal under-utilizes information in settings (i) and (ii). In setting …
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An entrepreneur contracts with a consultant, who is protected by limited liability, to supply information about the … probability than a bad one. The entrepreneur makes an upfront payment that the consultant can either invest in information … entrepreneurs so long as his informal referrals remain high. The principal finds it optimal to under-utilize information if she uses …
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In an information cascade experiment participants are confronted with artificial predecessors predicting in line with … coinciding predictions of predecessors are observed, regardless of whether additional information is revealed by these …
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In an information cascade experiment participants are confronted with artificial predecessors predicting in line with … coinciding predictions of predecessors are observed, regardless of whether additional information is revealed by these … is not recognized. -- information cascade ; Bayes' Rule ; decision under risk and uncertainty ; experimental economics …
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We introduce experimental persuasion between Sender and Receiver. Sender chooses an experiment to perform from a feasible set of experiments. Receiver observes the realization of this experiment and chooses an action. We characterize optimal persuasion in this baseline regime and in an...
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This paper examines how information sharing impacts the quality of decision-making in Jordanian private hospitals from … the point of view of employees. It involved a structured questionnaire, which consisted of demographic data, information … sharing, and decision-making. The research results suggest that sharing information in both common and unique situations …
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We study the provision of information to tourists in a probabilistic setting. Specifically, we provide answers to three … tourist information center (TIC) and then we compute the equilibrium distribution of the number of tourists present in this …
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